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name and praise You, my healer and provider. What a loving and compassionate Father You are! As I meditate on Your Word of grace, let it bring healing, life, and liberty from every wrong belief and bondage in my life. I open my heart to receive Your deep and intimate love for me. You know everything about me, and You care about the smallest thing that bothers me. I reach out by faith right now and receive Your provision, healing, and wholeness for every area of my life. Amen .
“The L ORD your God in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.”
Z EPHANIAH 3:17
“Then your light shall break forth like the morning, your healing shall spring forth speedily, and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the L ORD shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the L ORD will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’”
I SAIAH 58:8–9
DAY 22
You Are Righteous and Blessed
Today’s Scripture
…David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works: “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; blessed is the man to whom the L ORD shall not impute sin.”
R OMANS 4:6–8
Y ou may have read Connie’s story in yesterday’s reading and may be wondering, “How do I fully rest in God’s love when I read about how God punished His people in the Old Testament? For example, didn’t God punish King David for committing adultery with Bathsheba and plotting the death of her husband, Uriah, and didn’t David lose his first child with Bathsheba?”
Yes, that tragic death is recorded in 2 Samuel 12, but don’t forget that David, like Elijah, lived before the cross of Jesus . Sin was imputed to David, and although the punishment was tempered with God’s mercy (God spared David’s life), David was punished nonetheless with the death of his child because he was under the covenant of law and not the covenant of grace. You will never find an example of God punishing a believer for his sins in the new covenant.
Do you know who David was describing when he said, “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin” (Rom. 4:8)? Since it’s clear that sin was imputed to David, he could not have been describing himself as some scholars claim. No, he was looking prophetically into the covenant of grace. He was describing you and me—a new generation of people who are under the covenant of grace!
My friend, when David described the blessed man as one to whom the Lord will not impute sin, he meant that even when this man sins, God will not count his sin against him nor punish him for his iniquity. Too good to be true? That is why David defined this man as a blessed man. And this blessed man is you and me!
Today, you are blessed because the Lord no longer counts your sins against you. Because of the cross of Jesus, you will never be punished for your sins by God. Your sins were imputed to Jesus so that they would never be imputed to you. Under the new covenant of grace that was sealed with the blood of Jesus, God has already judged your sins completely on the body of Jesus Christ. This means that even when you fall short of God’s holy standards, the punishment for sin will not fall on you. The wages of sin is death, but Jesus has already died on your behalf. Your sins have already been imputed to His account!
Consider what John said: “…if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (1 John 2:1). He did not say, “If anyone sins, he will be punished for his sins!” No, under the new covenant of grace, Jesus is today your Advocate. He represents you before God, and as Jesus is, so are you (1 John 4:17)!
Is Jesus righteous before God? Yes! Then so are you. Is He accepted before God? Yes! Then so are you. Is He well pleasing before God? Yes! Then so are you.
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“The L ORD your God in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.”
Z EPHANIAH 3:17
“Then your light shall break forth like the morning, your healing shall spring forth speedily, and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the L ORD shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the L ORD will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’”
I SAIAH 58:8–9
DAY 22
You Are Righteous and Blessed
Today’s Scripture
…David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works: “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; blessed is the man to whom the L ORD shall not impute sin.”
R OMANS 4:6–8
Y ou may have read Connie’s story in yesterday’s reading and may be wondering, “How do I fully rest in God’s love when I read about how God punished His people in the Old Testament? For example, didn’t God punish King David for committing adultery with Bathsheba and plotting the death of her husband, Uriah, and didn’t David lose his first child with Bathsheba?”
Yes, that tragic death is recorded in 2 Samuel 12, but don’t forget that David, like Elijah, lived before the cross of Jesus . Sin was imputed to David, and although the punishment was tempered with God’s mercy (God spared David’s life), David was punished nonetheless with the death of his child because he was under the covenant of law and not the covenant of grace. You will never find an example of God punishing a believer for his sins in the new covenant.
Do you know who David was describing when he said, “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin” (Rom. 4:8)? Since it’s clear that sin was imputed to David, he could not have been describing himself as some scholars claim. No, he was looking prophetically into the covenant of grace. He was describing you and me—a new generation of people who are under the covenant of grace!
My friend, when David described the blessed man as one to whom the Lord will not impute sin, he meant that even when this man sins, God will not count his sin against him nor punish him for his iniquity. Too good to be true? That is why David defined this man as a blessed man. And this blessed man is you and me!
Today, you are blessed because the Lord no longer counts your sins against you. Because of the cross of Jesus, you will never be punished for your sins by God. Your sins were imputed to Jesus so that they would never be imputed to you. Under the new covenant of grace that was sealed with the blood of Jesus, God has already judged your sins completely on the body of Jesus Christ. This means that even when you fall short of God’s holy standards, the punishment for sin will not fall on you. The wages of sin is death, but Jesus has already died on your behalf. Your sins have already been imputed to His account!
Consider what John said: “…if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (1 John 2:1). He did not say, “If anyone sins, he will be punished for his sins!” No, under the new covenant of grace, Jesus is today your Advocate. He represents you before God, and as Jesus is, so are you (1 John 4:17)!
Is Jesus righteous before God? Yes! Then so are you. Is He accepted before God? Yes! Then so are you. Is He well pleasing before God? Yes! Then so are you.
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