God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
We still have the presence of sin, nay, the stirrings and workings of corruptions. These make us to have many a sad heart and wet eye. Yet Christ has thus far freed us from sin; it shall not have dominion. There may be the turbulence, but not the prevalence of sin. There may be the stirrings of corruption. It was said of Carthage that Rome was more troubled with it when half destroyed than when whole. So a godly man may be more troubled with sin when it is conquered than when it reigned. Sin will still work, but it is checked in its workings. They are rather workings for life than from life. They are not such uncontrolled workings as formerly. Sin is under command. Indeed, it may get advantage, and may have a tyranny in the soul, but it will never more be sovereign. I say, it may get into the throne of the heart and play the tyrant in this or that particular act of sin, but shall never more be as a king there. Its reign is over; you will never yield a voluntary obedience to sin. Sin is conquered, though it still has a being within you.
We are to love our neighbors as ourselves – and that standard of comparison, as ourselves , is often taken as an implicit command to love ourselves. On this view, the wording not only permits self-love but commands it; it not only sanctions self-esteem but reinforces its importance. On the face of it, however, self-love in Mark 12 is merely presupposed, not advocated. To read much of the contemporary literature, evangelical and otherwise, on self-esteem is to inhabit a domain a long way removed from the second great commandment.
1. Preheat oven to 400'F.
2. Grease 2 6-cup muffin tins with vegetable shortening or lard. Place in
oven to heat.
3. Sift cornmeal, soda, and salt into a mixing bowl.
4. Beat egg with buttermilk. Heat shortening with butter until melted; add
to egg and buttermilk and blend. Add to dry ingredients all at once and
stir just enough to give the mixture a rough appearance. Add additional
buttermilk if mixture seems too dry.
5. Pour into hot muffin pans and bake about 20 minutes, or until lightly
browned. Serve hot with plentyof soft butter and any homemade jelly or jam.
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