Mankind has two huge problems—thinking far less than he should of Christ and thinking much too much of himself. Until we think as we should about both we will never understand our nature and need of God. John Stott helps us with these wise words:
Every time we look a the cross Christ seems to say to us, ‘I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.’ Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross. All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousness, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.
