“If it is I who determine where God is to be found, then I shall
always find a God who corresponds to me in some way, who is obliging,
who is connected with my own nature. But if God determines where he is
to be found, then it will be in a place which is not at all congenial to
me. This place is the Cross of Christ. And whoever would find him
must go to the foot of the Cross, as the Sermon on the Mount commands.
This is not according to our nature at all, it is entirely contrary to
it. But this is the message of the Bible, not only in the New but also
in the Old Testament . . . .”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, quoted in Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer (Nashville, 2010), page 137.
Ray Ortlund
yes. so good. we are so, so finite.
ReplyDelete