short story from a book
of short stories called
'House Across the
Hedge' by Grace
Livingston Hill. This
statement is taken
from a sermon given
in that short story that
answers the question,
"What is the trouble with
today is that it has lost its
sense of sin, and of its awful
need of a Saviour! Men
today are unwilling to
admit their sin because
that would hurt their
pride. It is a humbling
thing to confess sin!
Men are provoked
when God discounts
all their
self-righteousnesses
and calls them filthy
rags!"
Isaiah 64:6
But we are all as an
unclean thing, and
all our
righteousnesses are
as filthy rags; and
we all do fade as a
leaf; and our
iniquities [sins],
like the wind, have
taken us away.
Ouch! That hurts us
Ouch! That hurts us
where our pride is!
Something to think
about... It is our sinful
human nature that
causes us to want to
do things 'our way',
and ignore what God
wants us to do. In
fact, we do not want
anyone telling us
what to do (Ouch! That
hurts to admit it, but I
am that way more
times than I can count).
You and I think we
know better than our
loving heavenly Father
does, even though he
knows everything - the
past, present, and
future, and wants only
what is best for us,
his creations.
John
3:16 For God so loved
John
3:16 For God so loved
the world, that he gave
his only begotten Son,
that whosoever
believeth in him should
not perish, but have
everlasting life.
3:17 For God sent not
his Son into the world
to condemn the world;
but that the world
through him might
be saved.