[Songs in the Night - March 30]
They sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Revelation 15:3
THE more we come to appreciate divine justice and
the righteousness of the sentence of death against our
race, the more also we come to appreciate the love and
mercy of God toward us, and to rejoice that he was
not willing that any should perish, and hence made
provision wide enough, high enough, deep enough, that
all might turn unto him and live—have everlasting life.
This provision of mercy cannot ignore the sin nor can
it permit the sinner to ignore it.
It is necessary that
the redeemed should know, should appreciate, their
fallen condition, the justice of their sentence of death,
and that their recovery is wholly of divine mercy.
Unless
they learn this lesson they could never appreciate
the divine arrangements and the only terms upon
which God could grant them everlasting life—terms of
acceptance of God's grace and forgiveness and their
obedience to him and his principles of righteousness. Z'06-62 R3729:5 (Hymn 79)