June 18 Daily Devotional

Bible Reading

Romans 3:19-31:

¹⁹Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
²⁰Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
²¹But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
²²Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
²³For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
²⁴Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
²⁵Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
²⁶To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
²⁷Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
²⁸Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
²⁹Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
³⁰Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
³¹Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Devotional

"Every one that seeth the Son." How can we see the Son? We cannot see him with our physical eyes. But we can behold him as He has revealed himself in his Word. Here He is shown us in all his love and loveliness. We see him in the state of his humiliation and in the state of his exaltation. We see him lifted up on the cross, as the serpent in the wilderness, obedient unto death; and we see him highly exalted. He is our only, complete Saviour. O sinner, do not weary yourself with your own works. Do not try to draw out the poison of death from your veins by your own efforts. But look to Jesus and trust him, and thou shalt live, live for ever. "He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." Christ will raise him up at the last day and give him a glorious body. Does this not seem too good to be true? Oh, when our sins trouble us, and the light of our eyes is not with us; when everything looks dark and we are nigh unto despair, let us look to Jesus with the eye of faith, and we shall experience his saving power. We shall have ever­lasting life. This is the will of God. His will never changes. He gave his son to save us. He will also preserve us unto ever­lasting life.

Prayer

Merciful God and Father, open our eyes that we may see Jesus as our Saviour, see him in his humiliation, in his suffering and death, but also see him crowned with glory and honor. May we behold him as the Author and Finisher of faith. May we see our salvation perfectly secured by him. Help us to believe and to endure unto the end, and when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, may we appear with him in glory. In his name we pray. Amen.

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Scripture in Devotional: Phil. 2:6-11; John 11:25; Phil, 3:21; Ps. 38:10.

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