DAILY READINGS: Gen. 3; Job 4-5; Matt. 3
His own righteousness, it sustained Him. Isaiah 59:16b
My own fury, it upheld Me. Isaiah 63:5b
God looked forward to the day when man would be saved
through Christ. Two things sustained and upheld Him. His view of
the perfect righteousness of Christ fulfilling His own righteousness
and secondly that the awful penalty for sin would be fully paid in His
own Son. “Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and
peace have kissed each other” (Psalm 85:10). His provision and love
are beyond measure! —Don MacMullen
My need and Thy desires, are all in Christ complete;
Thou hast the justice truth requires, and I Thy mercy sweet.
—J. B. Monsell