Transformation
Today I revisited a book that changed my life a dozen years ago, The Assurance of Our Salvation , by Martin Lloyd-Jones. Flipping through, I landed on this, all underlined and asterisked: “We are all too interested in our own moods and states and conditions; we are all too psychological and introspective, and too concerned, therefore, about the benefits that the Christian gospel and salvation have to give to us. And the result of this is that we we miss something of these great glories of the gospel as it is unfolded in the New Testament. This comes out very clearly if we listen to one another; have you not noticed how there is a tendency to be talking about ourselves? We are always telling people what has happened to us. 'Testimony' today generally means what we have experienced, or what has happened to us. How rarely do we speak about him! "...If you read the lives of the saints who have gone before us in this world, you will find that they spent most of their time ...