From Anger to Love

From Anger to Love, December 21
Author: Charles H. Spurgeon From the book: Faith's Checkbook

"He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities, and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the seas." - Micah 7:19

GOD never turns from His love, but He soon turns from His wrath. His love to His chosen is according to His nature; His anger is only according to His office: He loves because He is love; He frowns because it is necessary for our good. He will come back to the place in which His heart rests, namely, His love to His own, and then He will take pity upon our griefs and end them.

What a choice promise is this, "He will subdue our iniquities!" He will conquer them. They cry to enslave us, but the Lord will give us victory over them by His own right hand. Like the Canaanites, they shall be beaten, put under the yoke, and ultimately slain.

As for the guilt of our sins, how gloriously is that removed! "All their sins" - yes, the whole host of them; "thou wilt cast" - only an almighty arm could perform such a wonder; "into the depths of the sea," where Pharaoh and his chariots went down. Not into the shallows out of which they might be washed up by the tide, but into the "depths" shall our sin be hurled. They are all gone. They sank into the bottom like a stone. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

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How amazing is our God? To know that He sent His Son to save the souls of His elect! Knowing that Jesus bore the full unadulterated wrath of God. Knowing that Jesus drank the cup of wrath, that cup that will pass from us, that we will never have to taste. To know that when Christ died, our sins were wiped away, washed, thrown into the depths, never to be washed up again! As far as the east is from the west, that is how far our sin is removed. Knowing this encourages me to "Go and sin no more." I don't mean I will be perfect but if I can remain in my Father's will and do as the Spirit guides, and do so with a happy heart, God is pleased. Lord, allow us to be in your will, let us answer to your call and allow your gospel to be on our lips daily. Amen. Agape.