I see so many Christians living life beat down by there past failures and all the distractions of the busy life. As I read A.W. Tozer in my morning quiet time I just had to share his statements written many years ago. Listen, and apply the wisdom of God through His servant.
We Are Declared Not Guilty by the Highest Court
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Ephesians 6:11
The Christian believer cannot be happy and victorious in the true liberty of the children of God if he is still quaking about his past sins.
God knows that sin is a terrible thing—yes, and the devil knows it, too! So the devil follows us around and as long as we will permit it, he will taunt us about our past sins.
As for myself, I have learned to talk back to him on this score.
I say, “Yes, Devil, sin is terrible—but I remind you that I got it from you! And I remind you, Devil, that everything good—forgiveness and cleansing and blessing—everything that is good I have freely received from Jesus Christ!”
Everything that is bad and that is against me I got from the devil—so why should he have the effrontery and the brass to argue with me about it? Yet he will do it because he is the devil, and he is committed to keeping God’s children shut up in a little cage, their spiritual wings clipped.
Brethren, we have been declared “Not guilty!” by the highest court in all the universe. It is good to know that on the basis of grace as taught in the Word of God, when God forgives a man, He trusts him as though he had never sinned.
The Bible does not teach that if a man falls down, he can never rise again. The fact that he falls is not the most important thing—but rather that he is forgiven and allows God to lift him up! That is the basis of our Christian assurance and God wants us to be happy in it.
Renewed Day by Day Volume One by A. W. Tozer Compiled by Gerald B. Smith © 1991 by Zur Ltd.
Tozer, A. W., 1897–1963 Renewed Day by Day Volume I / A. W. Tozer. ISBN: 978-1-60066-009-2
