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I cried unto Thee; save me, and I shall keep Thy testimonies.
Psalm 119:146

If you know anything for yourself inwardly and experimentally of the evils of your heart, the power of sin, the strength of temptation, the subtlety of your unwearied foe, and that daily conflict between nature and grace, the flesh and the spirit, which is the peculiar mark of the living family of heaven, you will find and feel your need of salvation as a daily reality. Do not think that the only salvation to be felt and known is salvation past—salvation accomplished by the blood shedding and death of the Son of God.

There is present salvation—an inward, experimental, and continual salvation communicated out of the fullness of Christ as a risen Mediator. Don’t you need to be daily and almost hourly saved? But from what? Why, from everything in you that fights against the will and Word of God. Sin is not dead in you.

If you are reconciled and brought near to God; if you have an interest in the precious blood of Christ; if your name is written in the Lamb’s book of life, and heaven is your eternal home, that does not deliver you from the indwelling of sin, nor from the power of sin either, except as grace gives you present deliverance from it. Sin still works in your carnal mind, and will work in it until your dying hour. What then you need to be saved from is the guilt, filth, power, love, and practice of indwelling sin.

To the reader…

Are you discouraged that sin is still at work in you? Did you think that things would be different from now on once you had received grace, and do you now discover daily the wickedness of your heart, the power of temptation and the conflict between flesh and spirit? Then you are not alone. This is precisely the mark of the living family of heaven. Whoever knows no conflict does not cry for deliverance either; but you are crying, and that is no bad sign.

There is not only a salvation once accomplished at the cross, but also a present salvation, given every day and almost every hour out of the fullness of Christ, the risen Mediator. He does not stay far off from your conflict. Cry, then, with the psalmist: “I cried unto Thee; save me.” Bring your guilt, your uncleanness and the power of your sin to Him again and again. He does not grow weary of saving you, not even when you have long grown weary of yourself.

With warm regards,
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