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If you have been truly born again you have a new and holy nature, and you are no longer moved towards sinful objects as you were before. The things that you once loved you now hate, and therefore you will not run after them. You can hardly understand it but so it is, that your thoughts and tastes are radically changed. You long for that very holiness which once it was irksome to hear of; and you loathe those vain pursuits which were once your delights. The man who puts his trust in the Lord sees the pleasures of sin in a new light. For he sees the evil which follows them by noting the agonies which they brought upon our Lord when He bore our sins in His own body on the tree. Without faith a man says to himself, 'This sin is a very pleasant thing, why should I not enjoy it? Surely I may eat this fruit, which looks so charming and is so much to be desired.' The flesh sees honey in the drink, but faith at once perceives that there is poison in the cup. Faith spies the snake in the grass and gives warning of it. Faith remembers death, judgment, the great reward, the just punishment and that dread word, eternity.
C.H. Spurgeon

Some are greatly troubled by the fact that grace is bestowed sovereignly, but what other basis is there for its distribution? In Romans 9:14 Paul asks the question: Can God be just when grace is given to some but not to others? He answers his own question by reminding the reader that justice can only condemn all men, for all have sinned. We dare not plead for justice with God, for justice can only be satisfied by our condemnation. Grace operates on a totally different basis. Grace does not give men what they deserve, but what God delights to give, in spite of their sin. God is only unjust if He withholds from men benefits which they rightfully deserve, but He is gracious in bestowing upon men salvation and blessings which they could never merit.
Bob Deffinbaugh

Bible – dutch – FREE Online Hollands Statenvertaling. Psalmen Chapter 133:1-3.

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133:1 Een lied Hammaaloth, van David. Ziet, hoe goed en hoe liefelijk is het, dat broeders ook samenwonen!

133:2 Het is, gelijk de kostelijke olie op het hoofd, nederdalende op den baard, den baard van Aaron, die nederdaalt tot op den zoom zijner klederen.

133:3 Het is gelijk de dauw van Hermon, en die nederdaalt op de bergen van Sion, want de HEERE gebiedt aldaar den zegen en het leven tot in der eeuwigheid.