My friend, Iggy, posted this on his blog. Considering our ongoing discussion on law and grace I thought it would be a great quote for the day. It also reveals that we humans, through the centuries, continue to default to works to please God. It's a constant battle to raise the flag of grace over the battlefield of works.
"Like the fascination which attracts the gnat to the candle, though it burns its wings, men by nature fly to the law for salvation, and cannot be kept from seeking life by it. The law can do nothing else but reveal sin and pronounce condemnation upon the sinner, and yet we cannot get men away from it, even though we show them how sweetly Jesus stands between them and it."
- Charles Spurgeon, Christ’s Glorious Achievements
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