The meaning for this common phrase came from bird hunting where some participants roused the birds by beating the bushes while others caught them in nets. So, 'beating about the bush' was the beginning of the actual capture. In grouse hunting, bush beaters are still used today. Many people use this phrase when they feel that someone is speaking misleadingly and are intentionally trying to evade the truth.
Doesn’t it irritate you when someone just won’t get to the point and just keeps babbling on and on? Well, I don’t want to take much of your time, please take just 3-5 minutes and read the most important truth in the whole wide world. Most people live their whole lives and never hear this truth plainly.
The simple truth of the Gospel of Christ is the hardest to make clear. It seems so easy and yet man will confuse and doubt it. They say, “What, no good works, no good feelings!” All these are fruits of salvation – but salvation does not depend upon good works – they are a result of salvation. Salvation is in Christ, wholly in Christ – in Christ alone – and the moment you do trust Him genuinely and really to be your sole and only Savior you have received God’s Son and God has received you. Plead His blood. God cannot, cannot, resist the cry of the blood of Christ. God cannot be deaf to the cry of His own Son’s blood. Are you sick of your sin and longing to be saved? Do your sins condemn you? Do the lusts accuse you, does your conscience accuse you? Come to God and take Christ’s blood with you, and God will, He must smile upon you. Take the BLOOD only with you to God and plead for mercy.
Your sins shed Jesus' blood, and helped nail Him to the cross. The blood of Christ, the blood alone, will forever wash your sins away and make you whiter than snow in God’s sight. Simply have faith in His blood and you are saved instantly and forever. Look to Christ as a poor guilty sinner. He only receives sinners. Rest on Christ’s blood and simply accept Him as your All in All. All your sin has been atoned for through the Lamb of God. He will expunge and wipe out your debt of sin if you will just call on Him for mercy. God has appointed a Day of Judgment, when you will face Him. You have an appointment with the Almighty, a date with Deity. That appointment must be kept; it cannot be postponed or cancelled. You cannot dodge this one. God has set a day, and you had better enter it on your calendar, for it is already on His. And you will abide by His Calendar, not yours.
There will no second chances in eternity. No verdicts will be reconsidered; no appeals will be placed in God's court. But something can be done about it now - but not then. There are many things that you cannot be sure of in this life, but you can count on that appointment with the Almighty. God cannot lie, and He keeps His Word every time. God has not only appointed a day, He has ordained a Judge – the Lord Jesus Christ; and He will judge the world in righteousness. You don’t always get a square deal here on earth, but all your full account (all your thoughts, words, and deeds) will be straightened then. God has a standard of righteousness that MUST BE MET, and He will never be compromised with the present-day fuzzy notions of right and wrong. All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
Now the Righteousness that God requires at the judgment in Jesus Christ Himself. You could never keep God's law (The 10 Commandments) perfectly and attain to God's righteousness, but His dear Son lived a sinless life for you, and on Calvary’s Cross was made to be Sin for you, that you might be made the righteousness of God in Him. When you trust Christ alone, His Righteousness becomes yours. Then, when God looks on your soul, He will see His righteousness, and not yours. The moment believe in Christ’s shed blood alone, you will be ready for the appointed day, for, clothed in His righteousness alone, you will be faultless to stand before the White Throne Judgment of God.
There was a woman years ago who had a lawsuit coming up in court. She meant to secure the services of a leading lawyer in her town but delayed going to his office. One week before the court date, she finally went to him and asked his help in the approaching litigation, but he said, "I am very sorry, I have just been appointed the judge of this county. I could have pleaded your case earlier, but now I can only judge you." The Savior will be your Advocate (lawyer) if you commit your case to Him now; but if you procrastinate and fail in that, He will be your Judge on that appointed day, for God has ordained Him (Jesus) to be the Judge of the whole world. God does not merely invite you to repent and come to Christ, and He does not suggest repentance; He commands it. God commands you to repent and believe the Gospel of His Dear Son, and all disobedience is sin. There is no fear of God before the eyes of this generation.
Dear Sinner, God is satisfied only with Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ’s sinless life and bloody death (Atonement) satisfied God’s justice perfectly for the sins you have committed. You may say, “But.” Away with your “buts!” You want to bring something to add to Christ – is He enough to reconcile God and not enough to reconcile you? “But,” “but”, again. So God thinks the Precious Blood to be a sufficient price for your sin and you think it is not? Believe and trust in Christ as you are. Whoever you may be, whatever your past life has been, whatever your present feelings now are – entrust your soul with Christ and God declares that your sins are put away forever.
You must put your salvation into Christ’s hands, it is His business to save you and He will do it, if you only trust Him to do it. Stop trying to save yourself, and trust Him alone. Look to Christ’s bleeding, He bled for your sins. Look to Christ sweating drops of blood, Christ scourged, Christ nailed to the Cross alone. Look to the risen Lamb of God now and be saved.
