Encouragement from Howell Harris
Howell Harris was an 18th-century preacher in Wales. He was a contemporary of George Whitefield and was used mightily by God to draw many to Himself during what became known as the Great Awakening. The following is an extended quote from a letter he wrote in March of 1742. It gives insight into his understanding of justification by faith and how it aids the ongoing life of a believer. I leave it here for your encouragement: [Jesus] is our righteousness in which we stand equally justified at all times, even in the eye of infinite justice! Though we in our obedience fall short of the glory of God, yet He accepts us being complete in Christ. It is true we perceive millions of imperfections in all that we think, say, and do. But we appear before God, not what we are in ourselves, but what we are in Christ. The moment we flee to Him we become dead to the law as to any expectation of life by keeping it. And as the law cannot save us, so neither can it condemn us to eternal death; Ch...