Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... There is reason to fear that many a prayer wafted heavenward remains unanswered, because the grand condition of all acceptable prayer is not fully felt as it ought to be! Men pray as if they had a right to ask, and a title to expect, favours from God, on their own independent footing. There is much trusting to his goodness and forbearance, and mercy, forgetful all the while, that God can only hear through the intercessor before the throne, and can only manifest his goodness through the one mediator, the man Christ Jesus.
When we ask of God, for Christ’s sake, the bestowment of any blessing, it were well that the truth were blazoned before the eye of our inner consciousness, that we cannot be accepted save in the beloved; that if God looks directly at us, we are condemned; that he can only be well pleased when he looks on us in the face of his anointed—when he beholds in the lamb that had been slain justice fully satisfied, and in the lamb now alive and living for ever more, the evidence of his own sealed and irrefragable covenant. ...
For more, see William Wilson on the acceptance of our prayers for Christ’s sake.
When we ask of God, for Christ’s sake, the bestowment of any blessing, it were well that the truth were blazoned before the eye of our inner consciousness, that we cannot be accepted save in the beloved; that if God looks directly at us, we are condemned; that he can only be well pleased when he looks on us in the face of his anointed—when he beholds in the lamb that had been slain justice fully satisfied, and in the lamb now alive and living for ever more, the evidence of his own sealed and irrefragable covenant. ...
For more, see William Wilson on the acceptance of our prayers for Christ’s sake.
