We Love God!

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

God sometimes takes joy in using ordinary things for extraordinary purposes (Neil S. Wilson).
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[Without the Spirit] the old covenant prescribed what men were to do but could not enable them to do it. It provided a basis for damnation, but not salvation; for condemnation, but not justification; for moral culpability, but not for moral purity.
John MacArthur