Saturday, March 29

The gospel contrary to nature

Self-righteousness and self-sufficiency are the darlings of nature, which she preserves as her life. That makes Christ seem ugly to nature. Nature cannot desire Him. He is just opposite to all nature’s glorious interests. Let nature but make a gospel, and it would make it quite contrary to Christ; it would be to the just, the innocent, the holy, etc. Christ makes the gospel for you, that is, for needy sinners, the needy, the ungodly, the unrighteous, the accursed.

— Thomas Wilcox
Honey Out of the Rock