Wednesday Wisdom 01.17.18

"Hast thou repented? God looks upon thee as if thou hadst not offended; He becomes a friend, a father; He will now bring forth the best robe and put it on thee: God is pacified towards thee, and will with the father of the prodigal, fall upon thy neck and kiss thee...Hast thou been penitentially humbled? The Lord will never upbraid thee with thy former sins. After Peter wept we never read that Christ upbraided him with his denial of him. God hath cast thy sins into the depth of the sea (Mic. 7:19). How? Not as cork, but as lead." - Thomas Watson, The Doctrine of Repentance