Thursday, August 20
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
(Plume, 1995), 63
The marvel of the gospel
How amazing that God in Christ should do all this; that the Most High, the Most Holy should be the All Loving too; that the ineffable Majesty should stoop to take upon himself our flesh, subject to hunger and cold, death and desperation. We see him lying in the feedbox of a donkey, laboring in a carpenter’s shop, dying a derelict under the sins of the world. The gospel is not so much a miracle as a marvel, and every line is suffused with wonder.
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
(Plume, 1995), 63
(HT: Tony Reinke)