Live Righteously, Repent Humbly

SATURDAY

“I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance” (Luke 5:32). What consolation for sinners! Yet we must cease from sin and do only good. Moreover, even while doing good, we must always regard ourselves as sinners—not merely with our lips, but in our hearts.

Do not sin, yet repent as a true sinner and call upon the Lord to have mercy on you. If this is your disposition, you stand in the truth. But if you surrender to a feeling of self-righteousness and begin to consider yourself sinless, know that you have strayed from the right path and taken a road that does not lead to salvation.

How can an upright life be joined with an awareness of one’s sinfulness? Only those scribes who write but do not put their words into practice ask such a question. To anyone who walks the path of putting faith into practice, it is perfectly clear that it cannot be otherwise.

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