No Great Joy Than to be Redeemed From All Things

"Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile." (Psalm 32:2)

This blessing is so overlooked.

I was meditating for the last few days on the promises which God made to Abraham:

"2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

3And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." (Genesis 12: 2-3)

and then

"Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?" (Genesis 18:18)

and finally in Genesis, we find:

"1And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things." (Genesis 24:1)

Wow!

I want the blessings that Abraham received. He was blessed in all things.

Of course, we are indeed blessed with Abraham, because of Jesus:

"So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham." (Galatians 3:9)

and also

"29And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." (Galatians 3:29)

So, what is the most important thing when it comes to being of faith?

It's about believing that all your sins have been forgiven, and that we have been made righteous:

"6Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. 7Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. 8And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. 9So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham." (Galatians 3: 6-9)

BAM!

There is no greater joy that to be redeemed, to be justified from all things through Christ Jesus.

That is good news, good news indeed!

"38Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: 39And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses." (Acts 13: 38-39)

It's really important for us to get excited about this. I haven't considered how great it is, how sweet it is, that no matter how often I may fail, sin, fall short of the glorious ideal, God will never be angry at me again:

"For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee." (Isaiah 54:9)

The waters prevailed at one time, signs of God's wrath against the fallen, evil world. But the LORD God gave a sign, a testimony through His rainbow that He would never condemn the world again. We have this ironclad promise that God will never condemn us for our sins, because every sin was paid for in the body of His Son Jesus Christ:

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (2 Corinthians 5:21)

No greater joy! Let's us continue to mediate ont he truth that we are set free from all our sins, that we have been redeemed from the curse of the law, that no matter how uch we sin, fall, or fail, Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior is our full propitiation for all our sins (1 John 2:1-2)