*The Blood cleanses our conscience*
`Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Hebrews 10:22`
A clearconscience is never based upon our attainment; it can only be based on the workof the Lord Jesus in the shedding of His blood. Many of us are thinking in terms such as these: “Today I have been a little more careful; today I have been doing a little better; this morning I have been reading the Word of God in a warmer way, so today I can pray better”! Or again, “Today I have had a little difficulty with the family; I began the day feeling very gloomy and depressed; I am not feeling too bright now; it seems there must be something wrong; therefore the way is not clear for me to approach God. What, after all, is your basis of approach to God? Do you come to Him on the uncertain ground of your feeling, the feeling that you may have achieved something for God today? Or is your approach based on something far more secure, namely, the fact that the blood has been shed, and that God looks on the blood and is satisfied?
The blood of Christ has never changed and never will. Your approach to God must therefore always in boldness; and that boldness is yours through the blood and never through your personal attainment. Whatever be your measure of attainment today or yesterday or the day before, as soon as you make a conscious move into the Most Holy Place, immediately you have to take your stand upon the safe and only ground of the shed blood. Whether you have had a good day or a bad day, whether you have consciously sinned or not, your basis of approach is always the same: the blood of Christ. God’s acceptance of that blood is the ground upon which you may enter, and there is no other.
We are “made nigh in the blood of Christ” (Ephesians 2:13). And thereafter our ground of continual access is still by the blood, for the apostle exhorts us: _“Having therefore . . . boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus . . . let us draw near”_ (Hebrews 10:19, 22). Hallelujah 🙌
Your brother in Christ,
Apostle Ashok Martin