You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is
stayed on You, because he trusts in You.
Isaiah 26:3
Frances Havergal wrote the well-loved hymn, Like a River Glorious.
Read the lyrics of this beautiful hymn and see how her revelation of the
ever-cleansing blood of Jesus ushered in the richness of God’s perfect peace
into her heart and mind:
Like a river glorious,
is God’s perfect peace,
Over all victorious, in
its bright increase;
Perfect, yet it floweth,
fuller every day,
Perfect, yet it groweth,
deeper all the way.
Refrain:
Stayed upon Jehovah,
hearts are fully blest
Finding, as He promised,
perfect peace and rest.
Hidden in the hollow of
His blessed hand,
Never foe can follow,
never traitor stand;
Not a surge of worry,
not a shade of care,
Not a blast of hurry
touch the spirit there.
Every joy or trial
falleth from above,
Traced upon our dial by
the Sun of Love;
We may trust Him fully
all for us to do;
They who trust Him
wholly find Him wholly true.
Frances’s last words before she went on to be with Jesus were, “It is all
perfect peace. I’m only waiting for Jesus to take me in.” What a way to enter
into glory—possessing a perfect assurance of salvation, because she knew in her
soul that all her sins were forgiven, and that every moment of her life she
stood forgiven before God!
My friend, if you’re living life in the valley of despair today,
believing that your sins are separating you from intimacy with the Lord and
miring you in defeat, I want you to know that because you have put your faith
in Christ, you are under the fountain of the ever-cleansing blood of Christ!
Every sense of defilement or stain of sin will be washed away from your
conscience when you know and believe what Frances discovered.
Because Jesus’ blood continually cleanses you, you cannot bounce in and
out of the light of Christ, in and out of being seated in the heavenly places
in Christ, in and out of being forgiven, justified, and made righteous, and in
and out of fellowship with God. It is not a sometimes-yes-sometimes-no
salvation, but a salvation that has secured a yes to all of
God’s promises because of the blood of Jesus (2 Cor. 1:19–20)!
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