Cracking the Breastplate

Friday, July 27, 2007

Gurnall has a wonderful observation in The Christian in Complete Armour on the compromise of the breastplate of righteousness from the inside. I think we so often want to blame God or his tools for the failure of righteousness instead of looking at the internal compromise of our armor -- pride.

Satan's policy is to crack the breastplate of righteousness by beating it out farther than the metal can bend.... Is anything worse than pride, such a pride which runs rampant over the way which God Himself has made for saving souls? If you really want to be holy, be humble, because the two are clasped together. "He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" (Micah 6:8) God has not asked you to earn heaven by your holiness but to show love and thankfulness to Christ who earned it for you. [July 27]