A blow to self-exaltation

I am reminded often that the world does not revolve around me. It is true of not only my life but the lives of the majority of those around me. We are a people who desire to have things our way and on our time-table. The sad thing is that we often transpose this aspect of our thinking on to the character of God. We think that we are the center of all things, and that somehow because of our existence God is obligated to do certain things. The truth is that God is only obligated to us to the extent that he obligates himself to us.

I was reading yesterday and reminded that when we think of salvation, and our redemption by Christ. We ought to keep it in perspective. So I share with you a quote from Stephen Charnock:

"It was a pure goodness. He was under no obligation to pity our misery, and repair our ruins: he might have stood to the terms of the first covenant, and exacted our eternal death, since we had committed an infinite transgression: he was under no tie to put off the robes of a judge for the heart of a father, and erect a mercy seat above his tribunal of justice."

Praise God that when we deserved only justice he gave mercy.