FACTS VERSUS TRUTH

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                   FACTS VERSUS TRUTH   
      When I was a small child, my school teacher drilled into us the phrase,
"you stay by facts, and facts will stay by you." 
      I found this to be a very good principle in every phase of life except
one.  It will not work in our relationship  to God.   GOD DOES NOT OPERATE IN
THE REALM OF FACTS.  They will serve only to foul us up in our walk with Him.

      GOD DEALS IN THE REALM OF FAITH AND TRUTH, and we have to deal with Him
on this basis.  Consider: 
      Abraham and Sarah were both too old, it was PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for
 them to have a child.  This FACT is irrefutable.  But by FAITH IN THE TRUTH
OF GOD'S WORD it was done.  Also consider:                          
      I had committed many sins before I was drawn to Jesus by His Spirit.
 They are FACTS, and many of them linger in my memory yet, even though I have
made my Peace With God, and have been forgiven by Him. 
      But one day I discovered the word "justified".  It sent me on a search
for a simple meaning which I could understand.   It means to be ACQUITTED, or
DECLARED INNOCENT, such as jury would find or declare. 
      I was in a dilemma.  FACT insists I am GUILTY of the things I had done.
 TRUTH declares me to be INNOCENT.  I CAN NOT BE BOTH GUILTY AND INNOCENT AT
THE SAME TIME.  Which one is correct--FACT OR TRUTH?  
      I chose to put my confidence in TRUTH. It  brought  Peace to my soul.
  
      JUSTIFICATION IS ONE OF THE MIRACLES OF GOD'S GRACE.  IT BLOTS OUT THE
FACT OF GUILT, AND ESTABLISHES THE TRUTH OF INNOCENCE.
      Jesus was stripped of His righteousness, and laden with my sin on the
Cross.  When it happened, He cried in anguish, "My God, My God, why hast thou
forsaken  Me?"   He carried my guilt when He died.  He died a sinner in my
stead.  He has imputed His innocence to me by the miracle of Justification by
Faith.