“Behold your present standing, believer in Christ! Turn your eye away from all your failures in obedience, the flaws and imperfections that mark your sincere endeavors to serve Christ and to glorify God, and see where your true acceptance is: even in the Beloved… The Lord our righteousness.
’Accepted in the Beloved’ is the record that will raise you above all the fears and despondencies arising from your shortcomings and failures, and fill you with peace, and joy, and assurance.”
— Octavius Winslow
“to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace” Ephesians 1:6-7