Great Thought on Our Great God
I was reading a book this morning for my upcoming class, Empowering Church Leaders in Soul Care. The book is called False Intimacy and deals with the struggle of sexual addiction. I came across a quote by John Stott that reminded me of the worship theme we used for 2010 – Big God, Small Me. Take a look:
“If we bring God down to our level and raise ourselves to His, then of course we see no need for a radical salvation, let alone for a radical atonement to secure it. When, on the other hand, we have glimpsed the blinding glory of the holiness of God and have been so convicted of our sin by the Holy Spirit that we tremble before God and acknowledge what we are, namely, ‘hell-deserving sinners,’ then and only then does the necessity of the cross appear so obvious that we are astonished we never saw it before.”
What an interesting tension we live in, knowing of the holiness of God, the sin that resides in us and the magnificence of His mighty love for us!
