February 9

There is one mediator between God and men the man Jesus Christ.—1 Timothy 2:5.

FEELING my sinfulness, do I look to Christ only for salvation? Do I see and feel that mere repentance for the past, or morality, or any thing that I can do, cannot avail to save me? And do I rest all my hopes on the atoning death and meritorious intercession of Jesus? And though I would be obedient and holy, is it as the fruit of love to the Saviour, and not as the ground of reliance for salvation? Do all my hopes rest on Christ, and only on him?

If you seek to divide the work of salvation with any other, whether in heaven or earth, you seek to rob Christ of his glory as the only and all-sufficient Saviour. His is the only name given under heaven among men, whereby we can be saved.—PAYSON.

"For Christ's sake," is only another expression for the great truth, that all our holy emotions and expectations are dependent on him, that his death was a sacrifice for our sins; and in his mercy is our only hope. To feel reliance on his merit, and to trust only in his name, is the mark of true Christian experience. The man who does not feel this, is dead.—WALKER.

Jesus, my great high priest,

Hath shed his blood, and died:

My guilty conscience needs

No sacrifice beside.

His precious blood did once at one,

And now it pleads before the throne.

—WATTS.