Once you were not a people. Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 1 Peter 2:10.

No condemnation, now I dread. Jesus and all in Him is mine. Alive in Him, my living head, and clothed in righteousness divine. Bold, I approach the eternal throne and claim the crown through Christ, my own. Charles Wesley.

We are to run our race looking unto Jesus. We are to run depending on Him for salvation. Renouncing all trust in our own poor frail exertions and counting our own performances no better than filthy rags, and resting wholly and entirely, simply and completely, upon that perfect righteousness which He worked out for us upon the cross. We need not run uncertain of the end. We need not fight in ignorance of what shall follow. We have only to behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world and believe that He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows and will soon present us spotless and unblameable in His Father's sight. J. C. Ryle.