The Secret of My Salvation
I always fear and tremble for my salvation because the Holy Spirit has convinced me of this… For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
This word has given birth to a fear without precedent within me.
Together with the prophecy of Ezekiel, the Holy Spirit continually reminds me of my greatest possession:
“…The righteousness of the righteous man shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall because of it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; nor shall the righteous be able to live because of his righteousness in the day that he sins.
When I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, but he trusts in his own righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous works shall be remembered; but because of the iniquity that he has committed, he shall die.
Again, when I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ if he turns from his sin and does what is lawful and right, if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
None of his sins which he has committed shall be remembered against him; he has done what is lawful and right; he shall surely live.” Ezekiel 33.12-16
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