risingofthesun

...that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I AM the LORD, and there is no other.

-Isaiah 45:6

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Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to be saying to us, ‘I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.’ Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross. All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousness, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.
John Stott, The Message of Galatians (London, 1968), page 179
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