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Fact 2

The facts of which we are told in the Bible are like stepping-stones across a brook.
Before you reach the shallows where they lie, you wonder how you will get over, but on stepping down to the margin of the water, they span the space from one bank to the other.
When you have reached one you can step to another, and so across...

Let us recall a few facts which may help us first to faith, and then to feeling:

It is a fact that in Jesus every obstacle has been removed out of the way of your immediate forgiveness and acceptance. God was in the dying Savior, putting away sin, bearing our sins in His own body on the tree, reconciling the world to Himself. You may not believe this, or feel the joy of it, but that does not alter the fact that it is so.

After the peace was signed between the North and the South in the great American war, there were soldiers hiding in the woods, starving on berries, who might have returned to their homes. They either did not know, or did not credit, the good news, and they went on starving long after their comrades had been welcomed by their wives and children.
Theirs was the loss, but their failure in knowledge or belief did not alter the fact that peace was proclaimed and that the door was wide open for their return.

A friend may have paid all my debts in my native village, from which I have fled, fearing arrest and disgrace. He may have done it so speedily that my credit has never been impaired, or my good name forfeited.
There may be all the old love and honor waiting to greet me. He may have told me so; but if I still absent myself, and refuse to return, my folly in this respect cannot undo those beneficent acts, though it perpetuates my misery.

Father, thank You for sending the Lord Jesus to make peace between You and me, so that You now see me just as if I never sinned.
Lord Jesus Christ, I receive Your sacrifice on my behalf today, with great thanks,
Amen.