Trusting who you are because of what He did.

When you trust Christ your sin is credited to Christ’s account and his righteousness is credited to your account. He takes your debt and you get his credit. He paid what you owed (and could never pay) and he gives you what he has.

God faces the sinner and begs him to be reconciled. “Won’t you come home?” God calls out to the guilty sinner. That is God’s message to the world–Be reconciled to ME!

There was nothing except sin that stood between you and God. God’s wrath was turned away in the death of his Son, his justice has been satisfied, his love is poured out to you. You had to choose–your sins or Jesus Christ! Damnation or salvation! When you came to God through Christ, you were accepted. When you did, you could not, be turned away.

Jesus died on the cross for your sins, He took your place. You should have died there. But he died in your place, as your substitute, and by his death He paid the price for all your sins.

That’s a lot to think about, and you don’t have to fully understand it (no one fully understands it), but you do have to believe it. That’s what trusting is. You believing, in your heart that what God did by sending his son Jesus is the only way of salvation. Trusting is what you do when you get on an airplane. You trust your life to the fact that the airplane will safely take you up in the air and then safely get you back to the ground again. That’s trust. It’s staking your life upon something you believe to be true.

Trusting Jesus meant staking your life upon the fact that when he died on the cross, he really did pay the price for your sins and he really did take your place. Thank Jesus for dying on the cross for you. Thank him for taking all your sins away. Ask him to please help you to live a life that will be pleasing to him.

If you have the slightest desire to know the Lord even more, run to the cross. Do not hesitate, do not delay, and do not wait for a better moment. Christ died for you. He took your place and bore your penalty.