Here we are walking the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.
I took this picture with Edinburgh Castle at my back.
The big Cathedral on the right is associated with John Knox.
Further down this road, about one mile, is The Kirk at Hollyrood.
Andrew Bonar was minister there.
He and his brother Horatius are buried in the Kirk yard.
Those brothers knew that it was all about Jesus.
They preached the gospel of salvation by grace through faith.
Let this little meditation on faith sink in. Let it dispel doubt.
Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
His blood has washed my sin away.
I know that in Him I am justified.
“Faith, in all its degrees, still reads the inscription, ‘The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin;’ and if at times the eye is so dim that it cannot read these words, through blinding tears or bewildering mist, faith rests itself on the certain knowledge of the fact that the inscription is still there, or at least that the blood itself (of which these words remind us) remains, in all its power and suitableness, upon the altar unchanged and uneffaced.
God says that the believing man is justified: who are we, then, that we should say, ‘We believe, but we do not know whether we are justified?’ What God has joined together, let not man put asunder.”
Horatius Bonar, The Everlasting Righteousness