Our own corruption is no excuse for allowing evils to progress unabated. We will of course be judged for what we’ve done but perhaps more so for those things we fail to do. The true sign of a Christian is not moral perfection, but repentance. And the sign of a false faith is not failing to fail, but failing to condemn even our own failures while continuing to proclaim what is right, and just, and good.
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Good word. We all need to be reminded of the need to repent when we fall short of God’s standards.
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