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E V E R Y D A Y L I G H T
Daily readings to help you see Jesus' light in your life
by Selwyn Hughes
God Came Himself
"... God ... sent his one and only Son into the world that we
might live through him." (v. 9)
-- For reading & meditation: 1 John 4:7-21
There have been two great attempts to find God throughout the ages,"
said Dr. E. Stanley Jones, "one, philosophy, the other, moralism."
The attempts of philosophy to find God are represented by the three
great philosophical nations - Greece, India, and China. These three
nations have taken men and women about as far as it is possible to
philosophical reasoning. Philosophy has strained itself to the utmost
and yet it has not been successful in finding God. Lao-tzu, the
Chinese philosopher, said the final word about God is Silence, and
Shankaracharya, the Indian philosopher, said the final word about God
is not that. They both concluded at zero. Moralism, likewise, cannot
lead to God. The attempt to find God through the law was the noble
effort made by the Jews. Never was such a moral system devised as
theirs, nor an end result so disappointing. It produced, for
instance, the Pharisee who stood in his pride and said: "God, I thank
you that I am not like other men" (Luke 18:11). Jesus pronounced doom
on the Pharisee's attempt to find God through moralism when He said:
"Unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the
teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of
heaven" (Matt. 5:20). They could not reach the kingdom by even their
greatest self-effort alone. Both philosophy and moralism fall short.
When our best was not good enough, when our highest attempts could
not lead to the kingdom, God came down Himself to lift us. Now no one
need say in his or her quest for God: "Not that."
PRAYER:
O God, Your down-reach is my only hope. My up-reach is feeble and
goes little higher than my head. Your down-reach, however, goes to
the lowest of the low-it reaches me. I take hold of Your grace and I
am lifted - to You. Blessed be Your Name forever. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Rom. 5:1-8; Eph. 2:4-5; John 3:16; 2 Tim. 3:5
1. What is the result of moralism?
2. What is the heart of Christianity?
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