Calvin: just deserts

Friday, April 20, 2012
Meditation:
    For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
    —James 2:10 (NIV)
Quotation:
    For since perfection is altogether unattainable by us, so long as we are clothed with flesh, and the Law denounces death and judgment against all who have not yielded a perfect righteousness, there will always be ground to accuse and convict us unless the mercy of God interpose, and ever and anon absolve us by the constant remission of sins. Wherefore the statement which we set out is always true, if we are estimated by our own worthiness, in every thing that we think or devise, with all our studies and endeavors, we deserve death and destruction.
    ... John Calvin (1509-1564), The Institutes of the Christian Religion, v. II, tr. John Allen, Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work, 1921, p. 11 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your mercy is my only hope. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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