Daily Sacrifice, March 20 (31:1)
“In Thee O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in Thy righteousness” —Psalms 31:1.
THIS was the verse that stirred the soul of Luther. As a monk in the monastery, greatly troubled about his sins, he read in the Latin Psalter, “Deliver (or save) me in Thy righteousness.” “What!” he exclaimed, “I can understand how God could judge me in His righteousness, but surely if He saves me it must be in His mercy.” As he continued to ponder the Word of God, particularly the truth as set forth in the Epistle to the Romans, he learned how God could be just and yet the Justifier of those who believe in Jesus. This is the great truth which when once that Luther grasped it, was used to bring about the Reformation.