Whenever I hear anyone say, "I am as good as my neighbors," I at once conclude that something is materially wrong. Those who think themselves to be "as good as their neighbors" have never really seen themselves as God does, else they would have discovered their own hearts to be "deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked". Jer. 17:9. Never would a truly converted person say, "I am as good as my neighbors.”
Job said, "Behold, I am vile." Job 40:4. Isaiah cried, "Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips." Isa. 6:5. Peter confessed, "I am a sinful man." Luke 5:8. The Apostle Paul, far from thinking himself as good as his neighbors, called himself the "chief" of sinners. (1 Tim. 1:15). Where do you stand?
"IF THOU SHALT CONFESS
WITH THY MOUTH
THE LORD JESUS,
AND SHALT BELIEVE
IN THINE HEART THAT
GOD HATH RAISED HIM
FROM THE DEAD,
THOU SHALT BE SAVED."
"WHOSOEVER
BELIEVETH ON HIM
SHALL NOT
BE ASHAMED.”
Rom. 10:9, 11
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