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The Most Remarkable Characteristic

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Perhaps the most remarkable characteristic of our God is his willingness to condescend to us. Out of love for his people he will bestow the most unexpected gifts and take the most unexpected actions—even ones that seem far below the dignity of a God who is “holy, holy, holy” (Isaiah 6:3; Revelation 4:8).

We see this most notably in the willingness of Jesus to take on human flesh and then to humble himself “by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross” (Philippians 2:8). But we see it as well in God’s willingness to become an author, to give us this record of his acts and his deeds, his purposes and his promises. Whitefield once marveled at both this fact and our response to it: “God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave this Book of God, the grand charter of salvation, one fair reading through.”

Though this omniscient, eternal, and holy God has given us his writings, and though through the Bible he has revealed the way we can be saved, few take the time to give it a fair reading, and few bother to read it all the way through. Christian, receive this book as a gift and commit yourself to reading its broad story and its fine details, for both tell the story of God’s amazing grace.


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