THIS is a most wonderful and blessed thing. That which causes the conviction is that which saves. Therefore we need not be condemned at all. Neither need we go a long time mourning under conviction of sin. If we will but grasp God's way of working, we shall in the very moment of conviction find the comfort of pardon. The righteousness that is revealed for the purpose of taking away the sin, is that which makes it known to us; therefore if we will but believe God's word, our suffering for sin may be but as the lightning's flash; the moment of the revelation of the sin may be its departure. To be sure, the Spirit abides with us as the continual reprover of sin; but since he does this by the revelation of the righteousness of God, we may be in a state of continual justification, although continually conscious of the fact that we are sinners. “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.” Rom. 8:1. “It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth?” Rom. 8:33, 34. Every soul that is condemned is self-condemned; and even wherein our heart condemns us, we may have confidence, and may assure our hearts before him, because God is greater than our hearts, and knoweth all things, and by his knowledge he justifies. 1 John 3:19–21, R. V.; Isa. 53:11.— Selected.