Job 9:20-21 If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. One of Rev. Murray M'Cheyne's elders was in deep darkness and distress for a few weeks, but one Sunday after the pastor's faithful preaching he found his way to the Lord. At the close of the service, he told Mr. M'Cheyne, who knew of his spiritual concern, that he had found the Lord. When he was asked to explain how this happy change had come about, he said, "I have been making a great mistake. I have always been coming to the Lord as something better than I was, and going to the wrong door to ask admittance; but this afternoon I went round to the sinner's door, and for the first time cried, like the publican, 'Lord, be merciful to me a sinner'; and, oh, sir, I received such a welcome from the Saviour!" Are any of our readers like the self-righteous Pharisee? Such have no room for the Saviour; for the Lord "came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Parallel Verses KJV: If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. |
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