The Cup of Christ ~ C.J. Mahaney

This gave me chills & brought me to tears.  That's a good thing.

Our Hope, Glory, & Confession

“The cross insists on our self-humiliation; it insists that we recognize how weak, how lost, how hopeless we are, which is hard for all of us to swallow. Paul says the only hope is that Jesus came that he might give us a righteousness that we would never have in or accomplish for ourselves. Paul declares that his hope is to be found in Christ, ‘not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith’ (Phil. 3:9). That is our hope. That is our glory. That is our confession. Christ’s righteousness, not my own, and if I want to add to Christ’s righteousness, then I have offended him.”

~W. Robert Godfrey, in Precious Blood: The Atoning Work of Christ ed. Richard D. Phillips, pg. 92-93.
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