God's Sight My Safety

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 5, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 30.

God's Sight My Safety.

THAT delightful passage in Exodus came flashing up to my mind just now, where the Israelite sprinkled the blood on the lintel and the two side-posts. Then he shut the door. He was inside; he did not see the blood any more. The blood was outside upon the posts, and he could not see it himself; but was he safe? Yes; because it is written, "When I see this blood, I will pass over you." It is God's sight of the blood of his dear Son that is the everlasting safeguard of all who are in Christ. Though it is most precious and sweet to me to look at that blood once shed for many for the remission of sins, and I do look at it, yet if ever there should come a dark night to me in which I cannot see it, still God will see it, and I am safe. I am saved, because it is written, not when you see it, but "when I see the blood, I will pass over you." It is the perfection of the sacrifice, not your perfection of sight, which is your safeguard. It is the absence of all blemish from the sacrifice—not the absence of blemish from your faith—that makes you to be "accepted in the Beloved."—Sel.