"The truth is, being a Christian isn’t about having it more spiritually together than the next guy, or even necessarily sinning less. Rather, the Christian life is about repenting more. We must learn the language of repentance. We should pray that the Lord would grant us repentance—repentance from our failings and for the wagging of our finger in God’s face, and also repentance from our strivings and our self-righteousness. But mostly we must repent from our belief that anything but Jesus is sufficient to save us from any of it. . . . The gospel exalts the humble and humbles the exalted. It first bring us all to an awareness of our need for Jesus, and then it gives us Jesus. The Gospel not only meets our every need but also ruins the plans of those who would seek to sell us the idea that we have needs that are not met in Christ, because in Him we are truly free. We are free to do as Martin Luther once said, to “sin boldly so that we might repent boldly,” and all because we believe the Gospel."
Posted by at May 29, 2004 8:49 AM