I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.
Oh, may I then in Him be found;
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.
Are you listening for that trumpet? “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” 1 Corinthians 15:51-52. Many people die each day, and many of them had rejected Christ. They placed their hope in good works or some false god that cannot give everlasting life. Their hope was in vain. Only we who have accepted the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ for salvation have the hope and assurance of eternal life. Not everyone will die. Very soon we’ll hear the trumpet sound and find ourselves standing before our precious Redeemer who shed His blood for our salvation. Only righteous people can stand before God, but nobody is righteous. We are all sinners who are far from good, let alone righteous. It’s not our own righteousness that gives us the hope of eternal life. “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.” Romans 3:23-26. Only faith in Christ imparts His righteousness to you and to me. Only faith in Him will allow us into Heaven.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand.
Where have you placed your hope? Is it in a mere mortal man, is it in your own good works (which are nothing more than filthy rags in the eyes of God), or is your hope in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ? “But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;” 2 Corinthians 1:9-10.
I stand on Christ, the solid Rock. How about you?
God bless you all,
Nathele Graham
1 comment:
This old hymn has been in my mind a lot the last couple of years and is such a great reminder and comfort. Thanks for the article Scott.
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