On the right path

Moses began by being a failure! That was the school from which he qualified! Abraham began by being a failure! That was the school from which he qualified! Jacob wa a hopeless failure! David was a hopeless failure! Elijah was a hopeless failure! Isaiah was a hopeless failure and a “man of unclean lips,” but it is in the school of destitution—the bitter school of self-discovery—that finally you graduate into usefulness, when at last you discover the total bankruptcy of what you are apart from what God is! These men made this discovery, and were blessed!— The Saving Life of Christ, pages 68-69

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Not exactly a good track record by our standards, is it? None of those guys would get past our "holiness" detectors! Of course, those detectors are just a bunch of rules about do this and don't do that. They don't measure the heart at all...
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