6.―Confirmation

Mark what Jesus says to her, ― “Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.” “Daughter!”
Blessed word of relationship! The moment I trust Him, He acknowledges me. Are you touching Him, but trembling at this moment? He says, “Be of good comfort.” He is acknowledging you. Have you faith in Him? Are you conscious that there is power in Christ, virtue in the blood of Christ, to save you if you come to him? And do you trust Him now? What is His word to you? “Thy faith hath made thee whole.” And what is the next word? “Go in peace, and be whole.” First, He comforts; then He lets you know you are saved, and sends you away in peace.
The Lord lets the believing soul know that its case is entirely altered. He takes up the case, and the one that was lost is saved. The moment you commit your case to Christ, put your guilty soul, with all your sins and all your misery, into His hands, what then? “Thy faith hath made thee whole,” He says. And what more? Is not that enough? Not enough for Christ. He says more, “Go in peace.” The devil may say, “What about the judgment?” Christ says, “Go in peace;” the judgment you should have borne, I have borne for you.
Peace is this, conscious knowledge that there is no question that can be raised between God and me about sin. Every question was settled at the Cross, and “We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” He says, “Go in peace.” More, even, He adds, ― “And be whole of thy plague.” That is, you shall never have a relapse, never fall back into the old state you were in. “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me; and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any (angel, man, or devil) pluck them out of my hand” (John 10:27-28). “I am persuaded,” says the apostle, “that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 8:38-39).
“The gifts and calling of God are without repentance” (Rom. 11:29), and if He has given you life and peace, He will never take them away.
If you are Christ’s, do not be ashamed to own your Lord. Own Him, confess Him, wherever you are. He will give you the assurance in your heart that you are His, and that He never means to give you up till He has you with Him forever. What a Saviour, and what a salvation! What devoted service and testimony should ours be! The Lord help us to steadily yield it.
“For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again” (2 Cor. 5:14, 15). W. T. P. W.