Jesus knows your sins, your errors, your follies, and still He loves you tenderly. Your weakness does not repel Him; it gives Him occasion to show mercy. There are heights and depths, lengths and breadths of grace in Christ that far exceed all our sin and misery. He has brought countless souls to glory who were just as weak, as unworthy, and as discouraged as we are. His mercy is shoreless, fathomless, eternal, and unchanging.
Some humble believer may say, “I have made little progress. My troubles are many. I have fears within and conflicts without, and they expose my weakness.” But remember this: whatever makes us humble is good for us. Humility is one of the most beautiful graces, and without it there is no real growth in the Christian life. It is a sign of God’s care that He deals with us in such a way as to strip away our false confidence, humble our pride, and bring us low—while still giving us a hunger for spiritual things and leading us to seek them above all else.
The mark of a growing Christian is simple: Christ becomes more and more precious. As our view of Him rises, our view of ourselves falls. And that is exactly as it should be.
For the believer, Christ is everything.
If we are guilty, He has made atonement.
If we are vile, He is worthy.
If we are nothing, He is all in all.
To be in Christ is heaven begun. To be with Him and like Him is heaven completed.
And the one to whom Christ is precious—who finds God’s Word sweeter than honey, who hates sin, who delights in secret devotion, who desires to honor Christ in daily life, and who sees the world for what it is, a broken idol—that person has passed from death to life.
-William S. Plummer (1876) – Updated for Today’s Reader.
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