Oh, to see things clearly

I read a blog post by Kevin DeYoung today entitled: A Resurrection Postscript: Saved by Justice. Here are two excerpts that struck home with me.

I believe many of us have not begun to grasp just how good the good news is, just how secure our salvation is, just how completely and unalterably justified we are through faith in Christ. Mark this: God did not set aside the law in judging us; he fulfilled it.  Christ bore the curse of the law so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.  Not because we possess this righteousness, but because God credits it to our account.  So that, in one sense, at the moment when Christ died, it was what he deserved (by imputation).  And now by faith, blessing and mercy and favor are what we deserve (by imputation).

The resurrection is not a sentimental story about never giving up, or the possibility of good coming from evil. It is not first of all a story about how suffering can be sanctified, or a story of how Jesus suffered for all of humanity so we can suffer with the rest of humanity. The resurrection is the loud declaration that Jesus is enough–enough to atone for your sins, enough to reconcile you to God, enough to present you holy in God’s presence, enough to free you from the curse of the law, enough to promise you there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

It would be hard and probably impudent to add to what DeYoung has said so well.  I am constantly amazed by my own lack of grasping the breadth and the depth and the length and the height of the gospel. But I always rejoice when I consider (and reconsider) the absolute solidity of Christ, his work on the Cross, his eternal promise to his Father and to mine and the fact that He is not a wishful Savior (oh please accept my gracious offer) but rather a conquering King who has ransomed a people for Himself.

To God Alone be the Glory.