NOTHING LESS

My hope is built on nothing less

Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness…

The object of our faith with respect to salvation is the most important and most essential element of our spiritual life. Every other aspect – our bodily healing, our material prosperity, even our moral rectitude – all pale into insignificance in comparison to this keystone; because without a correct foundation for our spirituality, every other spiritual and moral exercise will be in futility.

Ed Mote, in the opening lines of his classic hymn, outlines the “Immutable Basis” of his hope for eternal life: “Jesus’ blood and Jesus’ righteousness”.

His Blood

It is Jesus’ blood that justifies us before God. Not our prayers, not our kingdom service, not our penance... nothing; for without the shedding of blood there is neither release from sin and its guilt nor the remission of the due and merited punishment for sins. (Heb 9:22 AMP).

The Bible is unequivocal on this key truth. Rom 5:9 says, “Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.” and Eph 1:7 declares that in Jesus “we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins”. (also Rom 3:25; Col 1:14;  Heb 9:12,14; 10:19).

His Righteousness

It’s also Jesus’ righteousness, not ours, that’s the basis of our fellowship with God (1Cor 1:30). At the Cross, God made Jesus “who knew no sin, to be sin for us; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” (2Co 5:21).

These two, therefore, must be the foundation upon which every other spiritual exercise is based. All other ground, as Mote declares, “is SINKING SAND”.

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN