THE object of redemption is to bring us nigh to God. Jesus suffered, "the just for the unjust to bring us to God;" yet it is impossible that we could be happy even then if there were still a thought of God's being against us.
There can be no happiness unless we have the perfect settled assurance that we have no sin upon us before Him. God's presence would be terrible to us if the conscience were not perfectly good; the sense of responsibility makes us unhappy where any question of sin stands against us.
We see this in the case of the servant with his master, or of a child and its father: the conscience is miserable where there is the sense of anything upon it which will be judged. Hence if there is any happiness in God's presence, it must be in the sense of His favor, and of the completeness with which we have been brought back, so that He sees us without sin.
This is the perfect assurance of the "worshipper once purged, having no more conscience of sin."' Thank God, the condition of every believer is that his conscience is so purged once for all that he has “no more conscience of sin," and as a result he also has "boldness to enter into the 'holiest." Do you believe this?