God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
Many over-scrupulous, rigid and obsessional perfectionists may worry intermittently for years concerning some relative trivialities, which have done no real harm to anyone, except the worrier. Here surely the emphasis should be on God’s wonderful and complete forgiveness available in Christ, and Philippians 3:13 is more appropriate.
Derick Bingham
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