What is your greatest need at the moment? Is it to find a girlfriend, or get a job, or decide on your university course. Or maybe you need to use the toilet...
The following is not my own, but is a small quote from Don Carson's book, 'A Call to Spiritual Reformation'. I'll probably use these words in a sermon or two in the future, so if you have the 'pleasure' of hearing me, please forgive the familiarity of these words, and hear them afresh:
'If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist. If God had perceived that our greatest need was political stability, he would have sent us a politician. If he had perceived that our greatest need was health, he would have sent us a doctor. But he perceived that our greatest need involved our sin, our alienation from him, our profound rebellion, our death; and he sent us a Saviour.'
And so we rejoice that God's wisdom and provision has more than met our needs, and that salvation can be ours, through the death of Jesus Christ, the Saviour.
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