Humility

"This way is first humility, second humility, third humility..... If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, and if it is not set before us to look upon, and beside us to lean upon, and behind us to fence us in, pride will wrest from our hand any good deed we do while we are in the very act of taking pleasure in it. It is true that other defects have to be feared in our sins, but pride is to be feared in our very acts of virtue; otherwise, those praiseworthy acts will be lost through the desire of praise itself..... lf you should ask, and as often as you should ask, about the precepts of the Christian religion, my inclination would be to answer nothing but humility, unless necessity should force me to say something else." Augustine

主イエスみずから水に飛び込んだのです。

「私たちは、溺れていいて、どうしようも無い状態です。人が『助けて！助けて！』と叫んで、湖で溺れそうな時に、「どうぞ」と言って、けして泳ぎ方のマニュアルを投げ込みません。イエス・キリストは、泳ぎ方を教えるためではなく、道徳を教えるためではなく、逆に私たちを救うために、代わりに生きて、死ぬために来たのです。神は、水泳教室の先生を送ったのではありません。主イエスみずから水に飛び込んだのです。そして、命を捧げたのです。キリストは、私たちの先生ではなく、私たちの救い主、いわばヒーローなのです。」ティム・ケラー

聖書・ルカ 19:10「人の子（イエス・キリスト）は、失われた人を捜して救うために来たのです。」

Let’s Tone Down the Drama - and Cling to Jesus

“The dignity, offices, blood, righteousness, faithfulness, and compassion of the Redeemer, in whom [the Christian] rests, trusts, and lives, for wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, are adequate to all his wants and wishes, provide him with an answer to every objection, and give him no less confidence in God, than if he were sinless as an angel: for he sees, that though sin has abounded in him, grace has much more abounded in Jesus.” 

John Newton

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