Looking to Christ

You have infinite reason to look on Christ, no reason at all to look off Him. He is meek and lowly of heart (Matthew 11:29). He will do that Himself which He requires of His creature, namely bear with infirmities (Romans 15:1). No pleasing Himself; no standing upon points of law (v. 2). He will restore with the spirit of meekness (Galatians 6:1), and bear your burden (v. 2). He will forgive not only till seven times, but seventy times seven (Matthew 18:21-22). It put the faith of the apostle to it, to believe this (Luke 17:4-5). Because we are hard to forgive, we think Christ is so.

We apprehend sin too great to be pardoned; we think Christ does so; and measure infinite love with our line, infinite merits with our sins, which is the greatest pride and blasphemy (Psalm 103:11-12; Isaiah 40:15). Hear what He says, "I have found a ransom" (Job 33:24). "In him I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). God will have nothing else. Nothing else will do you good, or satisfy conscience but Christ, who satisfied the Father. God does all upon the account of Christ. You deserve rejection, wrath and hell. Christ's deserts are acceptance, pardon, and life. He will not only show you the one, but He will give you the other. It is Christ's own glory and happiness to pardon.

~Thomas Wilcox, Honey Out of the Rock, page 14