“I feel when I have sinned an immediate reluctance
to go to Christ. I am ashamed to go. I feel as if it would not do to go, as if
it were making Christ the minister of sin, to go straight from the swine-trough
to the best robe, and a thousand other excuses. But I am persuaded they are all
lies direct from hell.
John argues the opposite way—‘If any man sins, we
have an advocate with the Father.’ The holy sensitiveness of the soul that
shrinks from the touch of sin, the acute susceptibility of the conscience at
the slightest shade of guilt, will of necessity draw the spiritual mind
frequently to the blood of Jesus. And herein lies the secret of a heavenly
walk. Acquaint yourself with it, my reader, as the most precious secret of your
life. He who lives in the habit of a prompt and minute acknowledgement of sin,
with his eye reposing calmly, believingly, upon the crucified Redeemer, soars
in spirit where the eagle’s pinion [wings] range not.”
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