Devotion Corner

Psalm 115:1 Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake.

‘To God be the glory’, is often said by Christians. However, how many times are those words offered by the lips truly reflective of the heart? Too often we make the Gospel about us. We rightly delight in the Lord’s love towards us, but we seldom push beyond those boundaries of infant faith. 

The truly reborn heart is fully aware of its deeply corrupt and sinful nature. In those dark pits of despair when the burden of sin becomes soul-crushingly heavy, we finally see how lost we are and how guilty we are before a perfect Creator God. Yet God moves by the witness of the Holy Spirit to our broken hearts, that by calling out to Christ Jesus to be our Saviour and Redeemer, we will have that great burden removed forever from us. 

God hates our sin, but loves us so deeply, that He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to pay the penalty for our sins. In Christ’s atoning sacrifice on the Cross and His triumphant Resurrection from the tomb, God provided the sword to shatter the chains that had tightly bound the burden of sin to our lives. Now unburdened by the stench of our sins, we can stand before God wrapped in the robe of Christ’s righteousness and know we are accepted of God. Not just accepted even but loved! All because of Jesus! How wonderful a Saviour we have!

Our freeing from sin was all by the power and grace of God as revealed in the selfless sacrifice of Christ Jesus on the Cross. Who can claim to be worthy of a love so mighty and death conquering?! Let all tongues be silent of self-praise, and all hearts tremble in awe at the power of the Lord God. For our entry into Heaven is by the blood of the Lamb of God, and by no other means are we made righteous before God Almighty. 

Let all glory be the Lord’s! His name is magnificent and worthy of all praise forever. For by the sweetness of that name we have been brought to peace with God. As we adore the name of Christ Jesus, so does our Heavenly Father, and so we all bonded together through the Son of God. This is the wondrous truth of the Gospel, and it is by the eternal Truth that is Jesus Christ, that we have an eternal home to look forward to in the Heavenly City. A home built by God Himself, where we will dwell with Him in peace and glory forever. Amen.