Many today have a hard time understanding the apostle who wrote Phil. 3. But the good old men of an older era didn't seem to have such trouble.
Two examples:
"It's easier to save us from our sins than from our righteousness" (Charles Haddon Spurgeon).
"Sin doesn't harm us as much as our own righteousness" (Martin Luther).
The longer I'm a believer, the longer I meditate on Scripture and face my own wretched condition (at my very best), and the longer I interact with a self-righteous human race, the more I'm persuaded that the older sort of Protestant knew himself, humanity, and his Bible better than the newer sort.
No comments:
Post a Comment