It’s a timely quote to remember, from the late British
Journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, who was himself a late comer to Christ.. In response
to the common, and modern idea that is generally accepted in our society that ‘man is getting better and better, and
that we are intrinsically all good, deep within.’ He wrote of the duplicitous nature of the
human mind, and heart. Saying…
“The depravity of man
is at once, the most empirically verifiable fact, and at the same time the most
intellectually resisted.”
The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
-
Jeremiah 17:9
But we have Hope in Christ, Thanks be to God!
3 Blessed be the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us
to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from
the dead,
4 to an inheritance that is
imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,
5 who by God's power are being
guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the
last time.
6 In this you rejoice, though now for
a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved byvarious trials,
7 so that the tested genuineness
of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may
be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of
Jesus Christ.
8 Though you have not seen him, you
love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice
with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,
9 obtaining the outcome of your
faith, the salvation of your souls.
-
1 Peter 1:3-9
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