Thought for today - 07/16/2012

A CHRISTIAN BELIEVES
"A Christian is one that believes things his reason cannot comprehend, and hopes for things which neither he nor any man alive ever saw.  He believes Three to be One and One to be Three; a Father not to be older than His Son, and the Son to be equal with His Father.  He believes himself to be precious in God's sight, and yet loathes himself in his own. He dares not justify himself even in those things wherein he can find no fault with himself, and yet believes that God accepts him in those services wherein he is able to find many faults. He is so ashamed that he dares not open his mouth before the Lord, yet comes with boldness to God, and asks him anything he needs. He hath within him both flesh and spirit, and yet he is not doubleminded; he is often led captive by the law of sin, yet in never gets dominion over him. He cannot sin, yet can do nothing without sin. He is so humble as to acknowledge himself to deserve nothing but evil, and yet he believes that God means him all good."
- Frances Bacon