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“Surprisingly, and superbly, Qoheleth (the writer of Hebrews) in (Ecclesiastes 3) verse 11 enables us to see perpetual change not as something unsettling but as an unfolding pattern, scintillating and God-given. The trouble for us is not that life refuses to keep still, but that we see only a fraction of its movement and of its subtle, intricate design. Instead of changelessleness, there is something better: a dynamic, divine purpose, with its beginning and end. Instead of frozen perfection there is the kaleidoscopic movement of innumerable processes, each with its own character and its period of blossoming and ripening, beautiful in His time and contributing to the over-all masterpiece which is the work of one Creator.”  Derek Kidner

“The love of change is a dominant principle of selfishness – insensible to our present blessings, and craving for some imaginary good. The man is rarely found, who is not more taken up with the prospect of future hopes, than with the enjoyment of his present possession.”  Charles Bridges 

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“The reformation is never complete in this life, and the more a penitent receives of divine grace, the more he is convinced that ‘it is God who works in’ him ‘both to will and to do of His good pleasure.’ Without the Spirit of Christ we are utterly unable to render any of that service which the law requires for our justification; and if we are regenerated so that we lead good lives, the credit is due, not to us for our justification, but to Him (Jesus Christ), whose is the only righteousness which God will accept as sufficient to honor the law under which we live and by which we shall be tried.”   George Washington Bethune from his book ‘Guilt, Grace and Gratitude’

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We need to understand who we are BY NATURE, in other words who we are as individual sinners who have inherited our sin nature from our parents, who inherited the same nature from their parents, who inherited the same nature from their parents, and so so forth, going all the way back to our first parents, Adam and Eve. This biblical reality is faithfully summarized in the Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 3.