One day as I was passing in the field, and that too with some dashes on my
conscience, fearing lest all was still not right, suddenly this sentence fell upon my
soul, Your righteousness is in heaven. And I thought as well that I saw, with the
eyes of my soul, Jesus Christ at God’s right hand. There, I say, is my
righteousness, so that wherever I was or whatever I was doing, God could not say
of me, [John Bunyan] lacks my righteousness, for that righteousness is right
before Him. I also saw that it was not my good frame of heart that made my
righteousness better, nor my bad frame that made my righteousness worse, for my
righteousness was Jesus Christ Himself, the same yesterday and today and
forever. Now did my chains fall off my legs indeed. I went home rejoicing for
the grace and love of God. Here I lived for some time, sweetly at peace with God
through Christ. Oh, I thought, Christ! Christ! There was nothing but Christ
before my eyes. - John Bunyan, "Grace Abounding"
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