When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the importance of humility and the acknowledgment of our flaws in receiving grace.
This quote by Erwin W. Lutzer emphasizes the necessity of shedding our self-righteous facades to truly experience divine grace. By removing our defenses and acknowledging our imperfections, we open ourselves to the possibility of receiving forgiveness and support from a higher power, recognizing our need for growth and humility.
In practice
In a discussion about personal growth and spirituality, this quote can be used to illustrate the journey towards humility.
The ability to make judgments lies at the heart of Christian living. Unless we are able to judge doctrine, lifestyles, and entertainment, unless we are able to distinguish between outer appearance and inner character, we just might miss the purpose for which God placed us on this earth. We might end up accepting a stone for bread and a snake for a fish.
At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.
Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition
When we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale
We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it? Only the perfect man, the God-man. The rest are all idolaters. So long as we see this universe before us, with its forms and shapes, we are all idolaters. This is a gigantic symbol we are worshipping. He who says he is the body is a born idolater.
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