Is the plain word of God to all, without exception, who come to Christ, who believe in Him. Having been brought to see our need as sinners, and to trust in Jesus, the full blessing of God is ours. "Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him." Faith believes it just because God says it, and the feelings follow. The good news fills the soul with joy unspeakable and full of glory. When self has been silenced, and the word of God allowed its right place in the heart, the believer enters, in measure, into the very joys of heaven. The precious word of God will not be truer there. Therefore we ought to know our blessing now as perfectly, though not so fully, as we shall do when enthroned and crowned in glory. But before this happy condition of soul is enjoyed, self, or the flesh, must be judged, broken, and mortified. This needed work of self-judgment must begin with conversion, and never cease while we are here. It is founded on the work of the cross. There God judged the sin of our nature, and our many actual sins (Rom. 8:3; Heb. 9:28; 1 Pet. 2:24). We should have the same thoughts of sin and self, and Christ and the cross, as He has. A. Miller