Sunday, September 11

To behold God in faith

If you have a true faith that Christ is your Saviour, then at once you have a gracious God for faith leads you I and opens up God’s heart and will that you should see pure grace and overflowing love. This it is to behold God in faith that you should look upon his fatherly friendly heart, in which there is no anger nor ungraciousness. He who sees God as angry does not see him rightly but only looks upon a curtain, as if a dark cloud had been drawn across his face.

— Martin Luther, quoted by Timothy Keller in
The Message of Romans
(New York, NY: Redeemer Presbyterian Church, 2003)