Horatius Bonar on sin

As sin is too great an evil for any but God to deal with, so is righteousness too high for man to reach; to high for any but God to bring down and place at our disposal. God has brought down, and brought nigh, the righteousness. Thus the guilt which we have contracted is met by the righteousness which God has provided; and the exclusion from the divine fellowship, which the guilt produced, is more than reversed by the new introduction which the righteousness places at our disposal.


The history of six thousand years of evil has been lost on man. He refuses to read its awful lesson regarding sin, and God's displeasure against the sinner, which that history records. The flood of evil that has issued forth from one single sin he has forgotten. The death, the darkness, the sorrow, the sickness, the tears, the weariness, the madness, the confusion, the bloodshed, the furious hatred between man and man, making earth a suburb of hell, all this is overlooked or
misread; and man repels the thought that sin is crime, which God hates with an infinite hate, and which He, in His righteousness, must condemn and avenge.


Does mans aching head, and empty heart, and burdened spirit, and shaded brow, and weary brain, and tottering limbs, not utter, in a voice articulate beyond mistake, that sin is GUILT, that that guilt must be punished,punished by the Judge of all, not as a mere "violation of natural laws," but as a breach of the eternal law, which admits of no reversal.

Source: Horatius Bonar, The Everlasting Righteousness, London: James Nisbet And Co. 1873, pp. 7,8.

Quote of the Day

To spruce up the lawns of foreclosed, one Southern California town has hired a company to spraypaint the dormat grass.

"The transformation was immediate. Inch by inch, foot by foot, brown scrub gave way to emerald-green grass. The lawn was still dead, but vibrantly so."

Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-spray-painted-grass2-2009may02,0,179640,print.story