May God forgive me, when I make ambitious plans, and ask God to bless them, when I go about attaining them using my human skills instead of His divine power, and when, after all this striving has produced fruit, I take credit for it, forgetting that my gracious God may have chosen to give success to me in spite of myself. By nature, the human heart is desperately wicked. We can cover ourselves in fine clothes and hide behind beautiful facades, we can go to church regularly, sing in the choir and look respectable, but deep down inside lies a rotten core. Theologians call this depravity. Only then will we be truly His, and God's light will penetrate and purify the dark areas of our hearts.
Reflections is a column of brief reflections on Scripture passages.
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