Regarding everything I do there is an element of unrest and turmoil because it is me doing it. When I am doing what I think is right, I still fear being wrong because I know how easily I can deceive myself and how quick I am to justify myself in what I do. I never have perfect peace about anything I do. The only perfect peace I have is that all God requires of me He looks to His Son for. The only thing that gives me confidence is the righteousness of Christ Himself is my personal righteousness before God. The only thing that gives me true security is that salvation is entirely by grace. “He is our peace” (Ephesians 2:14). That being said, it gives me some peace that I do not have peace with regard to anything else. -Unknown
THE TESTIMONY OF WILMA WARTA (Wilma has gone to be with the Lord.)
"I heard the Gospel for the first time again today, and it never sounded better. My life, if worth mentioning, has been an endless cycle of discovering that I’m wrong. Like the circular path of a lost man in the forest, I wandered in willful and helpless unbelief. The Gospel is the only Truth I’ve known. My only claim to glory is what I heard about what Jesus has done. Now, at the end of my life, I would like to praise my God and Savior. My cries were never loud enough, but His cries were heard for me. For His name’s sake alone, He found reason to save me.
How do I know that He did this for me? Because Christ’s experience, and what God thinks of Him, is all that matters to me. My righteousness is not on earth; He is in heaven. Christ reigns over His enemies to bring them under my feet. His satisfaction for sin satisfies God, and by His grace, it satisfies me.
My commitment and surrender are repugnant, could never influence the Judge of all the earth, but only bring me lower than the grave. But Christ died for me. My experience never measured up; but Christ’s experience is all that matters to me. My accepting Jesus didn’t make me acceptable to God, but God accepting Him did. We are told to look away from all that we are and look only to Him. All I want is to see His face, I shall be satisfied when I awake in His likeness. So you see, whatever good things you’ve heard about me, I’m sure it is not true. I will freely borrow words from one far better than me – “I am a great sinner, and nothing at all, but Jesus Christ is my All in All.” Don’t celebrate my accomplishments when I am gone; I have none. Do me this honor instead: hear what Jesus has done." -Wilma Warta
There was a time when I learned that I was a sinner like everyone else, better and worse than others I thought. But when the Lord "made" me THE sinner in my experience of grace, it was only then that the obedience of Christ became my only hope of righteousness before the Holy God. For only then do I know that in Him I was "made" righteous. As a nominal Christian, I once rested my faith in the doctrinal persuasion of men however true. But when I was given faith by God to rest in the faith of Christ alone according to the scriptures then I possessed His saving faith. Oh! What wondrous grace to possess the very faith of Christ, perfect and effectual, in fulfilling all that was required of me once and for all! Righteousness, Redemption, Justification, Forgiveness, all accomplished in a finished work by the Lord Jesus who did all the saving by His faith alone!