"The conviction which enters into faith is not only an assent to the truth respecting Christ but also a recognition of the exact correspondence that there is between the truth of Christ and our needs as lost sinners.
"What Christ is as Savior perfectly dovetails [with] our deepest and most ultimate need. This is just saying that Christ's sufficiency as Savior meets the desperateness and hopelessness of our sin and misery....
"....Christ is exactly suited to all that I am in my sin and misery and to all that I should aspire to be by God's grace. Christ fits in perfectly to the totality of our situation in its sin, guilt, misery, and ill-desert."
-- John Murray, "Redemption Accomplished and Applied" p.111 (Eerdmans)
[This is an excellent, comprehensive book on the 'plan of salvation.']
2 comments:
"...Christ is exactly suited to all that I am in my sin and miser and to all that should aspire to be by God's grace."
That was balm to a very needy soul this morning. Thanks for posting it.
-tina
Hello Tina,
I'm glad that quote was encouraging to you. A great source for those kinds of quotations, that help us 'preach the Gospel/Good News to ourselves every day' is www.firstimportance.org
In His grace,
Doug
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