William Gurnall says this in his “The Christian in Complete Armour,”
“If your strength lies only in yourself, it may soon be cut off. If your strength is in God, you will hold your ground.”
Screwtape’s Advice to Wormword
Make sure there is an ever increasing craving for sin leading to an ever diminishing pleasure from sin.
(C S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Chp. 9)
Flattery & Boasting
Quite simple really!
Those who flatter others are those who boast of themselves.
Daily Light Verses – Lord’s Day
May 19
MORNING
Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity. Psa. 51:2
I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me. Jer. 33:8
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from ail your idols, will I cleanse you. Ezek. 36:25
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. John 3:5 [Read more…]
Good Works – Not Meritorious
Calvin in his work on Reforming the Church says of good works: “the merit of works is a fatal intoxication of the soul.” (Tracts and Letters, Vol. 1, p. 135)
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