Lord’s Day Meditation: Man’s part is to seek Christ
November 20th, 2005 | Published in Quotes, Religion
[T]he very distinguishing mark of faith is that it takes God’s word just because it is God’s word, whether or not it can at present understand it. Man’s part, therefore, is to humble his proud mind, to renounce the sinful self-sufficiency which prompts him to treat himself as the measure of all things, to confess the blindness of his corrupt heart, and thankfully to receive the enlightening Word of God. Man is by nature as completely unable to know God as to please God; let him face the fact and admit it! Let God be God! let man be man! let ruined sinners cease pretending to be something other than ruined sinners! let them realise that they lie helpless in the hand of an angry Creator; let them seek Christ and cry for mercy.
—J.I. Packer and O.R. Johnston in the introduction to The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther, pp. 46-47