Yet, after all, faith is not our righteousness. It is accounted to us in order to righteousness (Rom 4:5, GREEK), but not as righteousness; for in that case it would be a work like any other doing of man, and as such would be incompatible with the righteousness of the Son of God; the righteousness which is by faith. Faith connects us with the righteousness, and is therefore totally distinct from it. To confound the one with the other is to subvert the whole gospel of the grace of God. Our act of faith must ever be a separate thing from that which we believe.

I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad; I found in Him a resting place, and he has made me glad.

Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.

Faith does not come to Calvary to do anything. It comes to see the glorious spectacle of all things done, and to accept this completion without a misgiving as to its efficacy. It listens to the It is finished! of the Sin-bearer, and says, Amen.

I heard the voice of Jesus say

Out of His fulness we receive, and grace for grace, — like wave upon wave.