We are all broken, one way or another. Every human on earth is attempting to find a way to heal the wound created by the Fall. Some search in material things, others in relationships, and still others in doing church. But a few do find true healing and peace. In the words of J.C. Ryle, "There is only one things that can give peace to the conscience, and that is the blood of Jesus Christ sprinkled on it." Praise God for His Son, Jesus Christ, and the peace He brings.
"To be 'without Christ' is to be without peace. Every man has a conscience within him, which must be satisfied before he can be truly happy. So long as this conscience is asleep or half dead, so long, no doubt, he gets along pretty well. But as soon as a man's conscience wakes up. and he begins to think of past sins and present failings and future judgment, at once he finds out that he needs something to give him inward rest. But what can do it? Repenting and praying and Bible reading, and church going, and sacrament receiving, and self-mortification may be tried, and tried in vain. They never yet took off the burden from anyone's conscience. And yet peace must be had!"There is only one thing that can give peace to the conscience, and that is the blood of Jesus Christ sprinkled on it. A clear understanding that Christ's death was an actual payment of our debt to God, and that the merit of that death is made over to man when he believes, is the grand secret of inward peace. It meets every craving of conscience. It answers every accusation. It calms every fear. It is written, 'These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me you might have peace.' 'He is our peace.' 'Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ' (John 16:33; Eph. 2:14; Rom. 5:1). We have peace through the blood of His cross: peace like a deep mine - peace like an ever-flowing stream. But 'without Christ' we are without peace."
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