Peace In Believing

"I am now most thoroughly of the opinion," says Dr. Chalmers, "and it is an opinion founded on experience, that on the system of  'Do this and live,' no peace, and even no true and worthy obedience, can ever be attained. It is 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.' When this belief enters the heart, joy and confidence enter along with it. The righteousness which we try to work out for ourselves eludes our impotent grasp, and never can a soul arrive at true or permanent rest in pursuit of this object. The righteousness which, by faith, we put on, secures our acceptance with God and our interest in his promises, and gives us a part in those sanctifying influences, by which we are enabled to do, with aid from on high, what we never can do without it. We look to God in a new light; we see him as a reconciled Father; that love to him which terror scares away, reenters the heart, and with a new principle, and a new power, we become new creatures in Jesus Christ."