Atonement, Worthy of our Trust – Charles Spurgeon

IS there a grander verse in the whole Bible, is there anything in the compass of Scripture, that ever glorified God more than that notable expression of David when he had been sinning with Bathsheba, and made himself as foul and as filthy as the very swine of Hell? and yet he cries, “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your loving-kindness: according unto the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.” Ah! Wash me,” that is the cry, “wash me, the most scarlet and the blackest of hell-deserving sinners, do you but wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” Believe in the omnipotent power of the atonement. Still believe you, and hold fast to Christ. Cling to his skirts, and if he even seem to frown upon you, hold to him, like the woman whom he called a dog, and yet she said, “The dogs eat of the crumbs.” Do not believe that which you think you do hear him say, for he cannot say otherwise than this, that whoever believes in him is not condemned; and he who believes in him, though he were dead yet shall he live. Out of your very death believe him; from your very Hell of sin believe him. Wherever you may be, still believe him. Never doubt him, for the just shall live by faith.