“For the sake of your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, though it is great.” Psalm 25:11
Psalm 25:11
The grace of Jesus Christ humbles us. Hymn-writer John Newton knew this well and wrote the following:
“Self-righteousness has had a considerable hand in dictating many of my desires for an increase of comfort and spiritual strength. I have wanted some stock of my own. I have been wearied of being so perpetually beholden to [God], needing to come to Him always … as a poor miserable sinner. I should have liked to have done something for myself in ordinary circumstances, and to have depended upon Him chiefly on extraordinary occasions.
“I have found indeed, that I could do nothing without His assistance, nor anything even with it. I am now learning to glory only in my infirmities, … to be content to be nothing that He may be All in All. But I find this a hard lesson. … Humbled I ought to be, to find I am totally depraved—but not discouraged, since Jesus is appointed to me by God to be wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption; and since I find that … He keeps alive the principle of grace which He has implanted in my heart.”
“Self-righteousness has had a considerable hand in dictating many of my desires for an increase of comfort and spiritual strength. I have wanted some stock of my own. I have been wearied of being so perpetually beholden to [God], needing to come to Him always … as a poor miserable sinner. I should have liked to have done something for myself in ordinary circumstances, and to have depended upon Him chiefly on extraordinary occasions.
“I have found indeed, that I could do nothing without His assistance, nor anything even with it. I am now learning to glory only in my infirmities, … to be content to be nothing that He may be All in All. But I find this a hard lesson. … Humbled I ought to be, to find I am totally depraved—but not discouraged, since Jesus is appointed to me by God to be wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption; and since I find that … He keeps alive the principle of grace which He has implanted in my heart.”
Scripture Focus
Psalm 25
Insight
“Poor, weak, and worthless, though I am/ I have a rich, almighty Friend;/ Jesus, the Savior, is His name,/ He freely loves, and without end.” (John Newton, 1725-1807)
Bible In A Year
- Isaiah 11-13
- Psalm 77
- John 18
