A brief encouragement to run hard for Christ glory!!!

When you have thus believed, believe in Him as Man. Believe the wondrous story of His Incarnation; rely upon the testimony of the Evangelists who declare that the Infinite was robed in the Infant, that the Eternal was concealed within the Mortal; that He who was King of Heaven became a Servant of servants and the Son of Man! Believe and admire the mystery of His Incarnation, for unless you believe this, you cannot be saved.

Then, especially, if you would be saved, let your faith behold Christ in His perfect righteousness. See Him keeping the Law without blemish, obeying His Father without error, preserving His integrity without flaw. All this you are to consider as being done on your behalf. You could not keep the Law—He kept it for you. You could not obey God perfectly—His obedience stands in the place of your obedience—by it you are saved! But take care that your faith mainly fixes itself upon Christ as dying, and as dead.

View the Lamb of God as dumb before His shearers; view Him as the Man of Sorrows and acquainted with grief; go withHim to Gethsemane, and behold Him sweating drops of blood. Mark, your faith has nothing to do with anything within yourself—the Object of your faith is nothing within you—but a something outside you. Believe on Him then, who on yonder tree with nailed hands and feet pours out His life for sinners!

There is the Object of your faith for Justification; not in yourself, nor in anything which the Holy Spirit has done in you, or anything He has promised to do for you, but you are to look to Christ, and to Christ Jesus alone! Then let your faith behold Christ rising from the dead. See Him—He has borne the curse, and now He receives the Justification. He dies to pay the debt; He rises that He may nail the handwriting of that discharged debt to the Cross! See Him ascending up on high, and behold Him this day pleading before the Father's Throne. He is there pleading for His people—offering up, today, His authoritative petition for all who come to God by Him! And He, as God, as Man, as living, as dying, as rising, and as reigning above—He, and He alone, is to be the Object of your faith for the pardon of sin!" C.H. Spurgeon.

Dear friends we have no reason to not give our lives for His service, for indeed He gave us His!!.. Bless be the glorious name of Jesus. May the Lord use this brief exhortation to look to Christ alone and do battle with remaining sin!!!!!!!!!

Made Willing In The day of His Power!!

Casey Kirkman