The quote below is one of my all-time favorites:
(Ray Stedman) The secret of humanity is open to everyone who opens his or her heart to the Son of Man, the Perfect Man. He alone has penetrated the depths of the human spirit. He alone reestablishes the lost relationship with God that enables us to be what God intended us to be. He alone saves and restores what was lost in the fall, in the entrance of sin into the world. He alone can restore the marred, distorted image of God in our lives. All the possibility of a fulfilled humanity is available to anyone in whom the Spirit of God dwells.All that you deeply want in the innermost recesses of your heart, you can be. I'm talking about the deepest, most inexpressible yearnings of your heart-your desire to be connected to God, to know Him and to be known by Him;your desire to have your life count for something in the eternal scheme of things;your desire to be clean and whole and forgiven. Jesus makes it possible for you to fulfill God's best for you, so that you will be mature and Christ-like,filled with love, forgiveness, wholeness, and good works. The great mystery of the ages, the great questions that have been raised by the philosphers and thinkers about our great but horribly flawed human race-all that has been answered by the entrance of Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, into our humanity
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