Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.
John Calvin
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He is "extreemly" holy. I am "extreemly" sinful. I love His sovereign grace!
I don't know...this sound an awful lot like Joe!
There is a great irony at the center of the Christian life. Salvation is a gift of God (Eph. 2:8, 9; Rom. 6:23). On the one hand, it costs us nothing. There is no prior religious or moral work that we must perform in order to receive it. There is no price that we must pay in order to secure it. We receive salvation by faith alone and apart from works. On the other hand, salvation costs us everything. We relinquish all, forsake all, commit all, believe all. We hold back nothing. We pursue salvation without regard for cost. The kingdom of God is free. But it costs us everything.
Will our contemporaries ever come to understand this? Will we? Can a world so in love with the present, so addicted to the flesh, so habituated to temporal things, ever grasp the worth of God's eternal kingdom? May God give us the grace to understand what life is about, what we are here to do and what our aim in life ought to be!
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