An aged man, very much concerned about the load of sins, was asked.
“Where are your sins?” As he considered, he was further questioned,
“Did God lay your sins upon Jesus on the cross, and did He bear them there?”
“Indeed He did,” was the man’s response.
“But Jesus is on the throne of God now sin’s load is no longer on Him. Where, then, are your sins?”
As he pondered the question, and considered how he should answer it, the aged man’s eyes were opened, he saw the gracious truth, that his sins had been borne by Christ on the cross, but were no longer upon Him; if then borne by Christ, and gone, where were his sins?—gone!
And, we, may add, not only forgiven, but forgotten, for God is almighty to foet as well as to forgive.
Most abundantly does the Word of God prove to us that we are saved from our sins. Christ stood surety for us, and suered in our stead upon the cross.
Note the two “owns” here—His own self—His own body. See how the Scripture brings Himself before our hearts.
What He did for us should ever live in our souls. We will keep Him before our eyes. Jesus, in His suffering love; “hath borne our griefs, and carried our soows:” our iniquity has been laid on Him, and “with His stripes we are healed.” (Isa. 53). He has saved us from our sins by becoming our Substitute on the cross.
ML 10/26/1941