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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Let us consider what regard we ought to have to our own duty and to the grace of God. Some would separate these things as inconsistent. If holiness be our duty, they would say, there is no room for grace; and if it be the result of grace there is no place for duty. But our duty and God’s grace are nowhere opposed in the matter of sanctification; for one absolutely supposes the other. We cannot perform our duty without the grace of God; nor does God give His grace for any other purpose than that we may perform our duty!
John Owen

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.
Thomas a Kempis

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17:1 Daha mi nestaje, gasnu moji dani i za mene već se skupljaju grobari.

17:2 Rugači su evo mene dohvatili, od uvreda oka sklopiti ne mogu.

17:3 Stoga me zaštiti i budi mi jamcem kad mi nitko u dlan neće da udari.

17:4 Jer, srca si njina lišio razuma i dopustiti im nećeš da opstanu.

17:5 K’o taj što imanje dijeli drugovima, a djeci njegovoj dotle oči gasnu,

17:6 narodima svim sam na ruglo postao, onaj kom u lice svatko pljunut’ može.

17:7 Od tuge vid mi se muti u očima, poput sjene moji udovi postaju.

17:8 Začudit će se zbog toga pravednici, na bezbožnika će planuti čestiti;

17:9 neporočni će na svom ustrajat’ putu, čovjek čistih ruku ojačat će još više.

17:10 Hajde, svi vi, nećete li opet počet’, tÓa među vama ja mudra ne nalazim!

17:11 Minuli su dani, propale zamisli, želje srca moga izjalovile se.

17:12 ‘U noći najcrnjoj, dan se približava; blizu je već svjetlo što tminu izgoni.’

17:13 A meni je nada otići u Šeol i prostrijeti sebi ležaj u mrklini.

17:14 Dovikujem grobu: ‘Oče moj rođeni!’ a crve pozdravljam: ‘Mati moja, sestro!’

17:15 Ali gdje za mene ima jošte nade? Sreću moju tko će ikada vidjeti?

17:16 Hoće li u Šeol ona sa mnom sići da u prahu zajedno otpočinemo?”