Saturday, November 21

Fill your affections with the cross of Christ

When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.

— John Owen, quoted by C. J. Mahaney in
Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World
(Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2008), 34