not owe us anything, that we are bound to live from His goodness alone, that we are left with nothing but the great humility of a child presented with many gifts. To put it bluntly, we do not like to believe.
But believe we must. Believe in the greatness of the merciful heart of God. Believe in the sufficiency of Christ’s atoning sacrifice. Believe most of all, perhaps, in the truth of that extraordinary promise, ‘Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.’
In the topsy-turvy world of heaven, it is the poor who are rich, the humbled who are great. In the paradoxical topography of the kingdom of God, the way up is down.
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