This 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, we enjoy the full blessing
of God. "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 when,
enthroned and crowned in glory.

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; I Pet. 2:24). We should have the same thoughts of
sin and self, and Christ and the cross, as He has.

FRAGMENT
The sense that we are nothing makes us glad to forget ourselves, and then it is that Christ becomes
everything to the soul.