Why does the song "Amazing Grace" resound so in our hearts? Because it is giving credit to where credit is due. He is the God of all grace. And we are the grateful recipients.
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Testify!
August 14, 2010
Samuel Rutherford (17th century) wrote a letter to the parishioners of Kilmacolm, and 200 years later the Scottish pastor Alexander Whyte examined Rutherford's insight.
'Some of the people of God,' says their sharp-eyed censor, 'slander the grace of God in their own soul.' And that is true of some of God's best people still.
We meet with such people now and then in our own parishes to-day. They are so possessed with penitence and humility; they have such high and inflexible and spiritual standards for measuring themselves by; the law has so fatally entered their innermost souls that they will not even admit or acknowledge what the grace of God has, to all other men's knowledge, done in them.
Seek out, says Rutherford, the signs of true grace in yourselves as well as the signs of secret sin. And when you have found such and such an indubitable sign of grace, say so.
Say this, and this, and this, pointing it out, is assuredly the work of God in my soul. When you, after all defeat, really discover your soul growing in grace;
in patience under injuries;
in meekness under reproofs and corrections;
in love for, or at least in peace of heart toward, those you at one time did not like, but disliked almost to downright hatred;
in silent and assenting acceptance, if not yet in actual and positive enjoyment, of another man's talents and success, gain and fame;
in the decay and disappearance of party spirit, and in openness to all the good and the merit of other men; in prayerfulness;
in liberality, and so on; when you cannot deny these things in yourself, then speak good of Christ, and do not traduce and backbite His work because it is in your own soul.
'Some wretches murmur of want while all the time their money in the bank and their fat harvests make them liars.'
Through many dangers, toils and snares
I have already come;
'Tis Grace that brought me safe thus far
and Grace will lead me home.
AMAZING GRACE by John Newton
