A lady said to me the other day, “I never can have a photograph of myself that I like. Either I look cross, or old or something like that.”
She did not want to see herself as she was, but wanted to appear better.
We are all like this lady; but wishing to look or be better, does not make us so.
God tells us the truth about ourselves (and we do not like it either) that we may know what we are in His sight.
“THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS AND DESPERATELY WICKED: WHO CAN KNOW IT?” Jer. 17:9.
“There is no difference for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Rom. 3:22,23.
He wants us to know just how bad we are that we may realize we cannot hope to win salvation by our own efforts, and that we may turn to the Lord to receive, through Him the forgiveness of our sins.
“Through this Man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: and by Him all that believe, are justified from all things.” Acts 13:38, 39.
ML 08/15/1940