False Fears

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A minister, while crossing the Bay of Biscay, became greatly alarmed as he beheld what he thought was an approaching hurricane. Tremblingly he addressed himself to one of the sailors: “Do you think she will be able to go through it?” “Through what?” inquired the sailor. “That awful hurricane that is coming down upon us.” The old sailor smiled and said: “That storm will never touch us. It has passed us already.” So, in regard to the believer, judgment as to the penalty of our sins is past. We were tried, condemned, and executed, in the person of our surety, Jesus Christ.

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