Saturday, August 30, 2008

DAILY READINGS: 2 Samuel 14; Zephaniah 2; Galatians 2

The great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.  Revelation 12:9

Central Park in Madrid is home to a dreadful spectacle, what the tourist guide book describes as, “the world’s only monument created in his honour”. It is a statue of Lucifer—the fallen angel—erected there in 1881. How easy to be deceived into believing that a monument is needed to denote his work. Just as there are millions of Christians who are “monuments of grace”, so it is that there are millions of souls who are living monuments to sin. How will you be remembered? As a “sinner” or as “a sinner saved by grace?”  —Brian Powlesland

A monument of grace, a sinner saved by blood,
The streams of love I trace, up to the fountain God. —John Kent

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