Hope in the Gospel

Who shall deliver us from this body of death?  Let us than God that Jesus Christ can. He is that divine Physician, who can make old things pass away and all things become new.  In Him is life.  He can wash us thoroughly from all the defilement of sin in His own blood.  He can quicken us, and revive us by his own Spirit.  He can cleanse our hearts, open the eyes of our understandings, renew our wills, and make us whole.  Let this sink down deeply in our hearts.  There is medicine to heal our sickness.  If we are lost it is not because we cannot be saved.  However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.  There is no case of spiritual leprosy too hard for Christ.

-J.C. Ryle