Sunday, October 24

Knowing our need

All shallow views of the atonement are the consequence of shallow perception of sin and superficial awareness of spiritual need. If we know something of the depth of our own depravity and the extent of our own guilt we shall readily appreciate God’s provision in the blood of His Son.

— Donald Macleod, quoted by Philip Graham Ryken in
Precious Blood: The Atoning Work of Christ, ed. Richard D. Phillips
(Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2009), 50