Our Suffering Substitute

“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit” (1 Peter 3:18).The sufferings are finished. The debt is paid. Justice is magnified. The law is magnified. Righteousness is established. For all His people’s sins Christ has made a complete atonement, and for their justification He has risen from the dead.Now, poor trembling seeker, what do you say to this? Can you not now rest on Christ? God is satisfied with His Son’s atoning sacrifice; can you be dissatisfied with it? God thinks Jesus enough; can you think Him too little? Did the Lord, the King, against whom you have offended, accept the reconciliation; and do you unbelievingly and distrustfully say, “I fear it is not sufficient?” Cast away guilty fears, I beseech you.May the Blessed Comforter enable you now to say:“Just as I am without one pleaBut that Thy blood was shed for meAnd that thou bidd’st me come to theeO Lamb o