| Since I’ve been posting about freedom in Christ I thought I’d share a little of today’s Evening reading from Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon as it goes hand in hand with what I’ve been posting and what we’ve been talking about here. This deals a little more with our everlasting security, but it also applies to freedom over sin in our lives today.
To make what Spurgeon has written a little easier to understand and follow I’m going to break the devotion down and number the points. Hopefully this will make what he has to say a little easier to understand and apply. (Note: Again, Spurgeon does not number his points. I am taking liberties and doing this for the sake of clarity. This is exactly what my morning journal entry looked like.)
What is Everlasting consolation? (2 Thessalonians 2:16)
1. It includes a sense of pardon from sin. A Christian has received in his heart the witness of the Spirit that his iniquities are “blotted out…as a cloud” and his transgressions “as a thick cloud” (Isa. 44:22).
2. The Lord gives His people an abiding sense of acceptance in Christ. The Christian knows that God looks upon him as standing in union with Jesus. (In sickness and even in death we have this consolation.)
3. The Christian has a conviction of his security. God has promised to save those who trust in Christ.
“The Christian does trust in Christ. He believes that God will be as good as His Word and will save him. He believes that he is safe by virtue of his being bound up with the person and work of Jesus.”
-Charles H. Spurgeon
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you. –Isaiah 45:22 | 
