Today’s mid-week encouragement is another song by Augustus M. Toplady, entitled A Debtor to Mercy Alone.

Romans 8:1-4, “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

A debtor to mercy alone, of covenant mercy I sing;
Nor fear, with Thy righteousness on, my person and off’ring to bring.
The terrors of law and of God with me can have nothing to do;
My Savior’s obedience and blood hide all my transgressions from view.

The work which His goodness began, the arm of His strength will complete;
His promise is Yea and Amen, and never was forfeited yet.
Things future, nor things that are now, nor all things below or above,
Can make Him His purpose forgo, or sever my soul from His love.

My name from the palms of His hands eternity will not erase;
Impressed on His heart it remains, in marks of indelible grace.
Yes, I to the end shall endure, as sure as the earnest is giv’n;
More happy, but not more secure, the glorified spirits in Heav’n.

Praise be to our Lord Jehovah that covered in the garments of Christ’s righteousness that the terrors of law and the wrath of God will never have anything to do with His precious children, whom He has redeemed out of every tribe, kindred, people, and nations. Thanks to our God that all of our transgressions are hidden from view never to be remembered again because of the Saviour’s obedience and shedding of His blood.

Covered by the earnest of the Spirit,
The Desert Pastor

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