If you feel sincerely sorry on account of your sins, and believe that Christ is able and willing to forgive you, the work is done. You may trust with all the confidence of a child who confesses his fault, and casts himself into his father's arms. This is faith; a simple trust in the power and willingness of the Father to forgive, for the sake of what Christ the Son has done.
Go to the cross, and meet there God in sacrifice. Behold Him as Jesus bearing your sin, receiving the shafts of your enmity! Embrace Him, believe in Him, take Him to your inmost heart. Do this, and you shall feel sin die within you, and a glorious quickening, Christ the power of God, Christ in you the hope of glory, shall be consciously risen upon you, as the morn of your new creation.
Virtuous or vile, decent or indecent, rich or poor, receive and rest upon Christ now as He is so freely offered you; and then you may believe (not feel) that your sins are in the depths of the sea.
I am a sinner and a debtor to God. The law has a claim against me; but the gospel says Christ paid that claim on the cross. I believe that. I take that death as good for my claim, and I say boldly, "It is paid." I am tired of sin. Christ bids me rest on Him. I do rest on Him. He tells me that if I will put myself, sins and all, with all my weakness—put my stained past, the guidance of the present, the whole matter of the future, into His hands, and leave it with Him, He will take care of the whole. I do put it all into His hands. I lay my sins on Jesus. I rest my whole life on Him.
