IF the troubled sinner did but know who Jesus is, his troubles and his fears would flee away. He is Almighty and Eternal, the Maker of all worlds, the everlasting God, in time stooping to humanity, and becoming a very man upon this earth. We think of His shedding His blood to put away sins, and at once the heart says, His blood cleanseth from all sin. There can be no doubt as to this. He who became a Man in order to die is the Almighty. The sins of a sinner are less than nothing in view of the almighty efficacy of the blood of Jesus. There is no room, no standpoint for the question as to whether the blood is capable of meeting the depths of our darkest sins when we view the greatness of the Lord.
Still, there may be room left to say, But how can I hope in Him? A knowledge of the unfathomable grace of His heart alone enables us to answer this question.
His love is like His power, measureless. If we would compare ourselves in our sins to a tiny shell covered with mire, and the cleansing efficacy of the blood of Christ to a boundless ocean, we may have a thought of the illimitable value of His blood to meet our need; and if we suppose the tiny shell dropped into the ocean’s depths, we may see in it a figure of ourselves in all our need and nothingness, dropped into the fathomless love of Christ. Trouble ceases in that love. The ocean has filled the shell.