CQOD: 11/24/05 -- Hanson: What more could He do?

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 24, 2005

Thanksgiving (U.S.)

Meditation:
    Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.
    -- 1 Corinthians 4:2 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    It seems that Paul is here [I Cor. 4:2] outlining the very ultimate degree of Christ’s self-identification with us, the very lowest point to which he condescended when he took the form of a slave. He allowed himself (God allowed him) to be accounted sin by the Law. He refused to do what orthodox Jews of his day thought God had commanded them to do, (i.e.) seek to gain credit with God by keeping the Law. He lived by faith, not Law, and therefore repudiated the Law and the path of self-justification.... He stripped himself even of that claim to moral goodness which would have distinguished him from sinners. Short of becoming a sinner (and Paul shows that this idea is repudiated), how could God come closer to us sinners?
    ... Anthony T. Hanson (1916-1991), The Church of the Servant [1962]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me a spirit of gratitude this day, particularly for the faithfulness of Your Son, our Lord, Jesus.

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