Mistake Not Yourselves Any Longer

This quotation came to me from Scott Anderson. May you be encouraged even as I was.

"In the day when He casts our sins into the depth of the sea, He views us as pure in His sight, and we stand accepted in the Beloved. Then He says, 'As far as the east is from the west so far hath He removed our transgressions from us.' They cannot be removed and be here still. Then if thou believest in Christ, thou are no more in the sight of God a sinner; thou art accepted as though thou were perfect, as though thou hadst kept the law for Christ has kept it, and His righteousness is thine. You have broken it, but your sin is His, and He has been punished for it. Mistake not yourselves any longer; you are no more what you were; when you believe, you stand in Christ's stead, even as Christ of old stood in your stead. The transformation is complete, the exchange is positive and eternal. They who believe in Jesus are as much accepted of God the Father as even His Eternal Son is accepted; and they that believe not, let them do what they will, they shall but go about to work out their own righteousness; but they abide under the law, and still shall they be under the curse."
~ Charles Spurgeon