Meditate Upon Christ
To believe in Christ for redemption, for justification, for sanctification, is but one half of the duty of faith–it respects Christ only as he died and suffered for us, as he made atonement for our
sins, peace with God and reconciliation for us, as his righteousness is imputed to us for justification… we are exhorted to receive him and believe in him, but that is not all that is required of us. Christ in the gospel is proposed to us as our pattern and example of holiness… Wherefore let us be much in the contemplation of what he was, what he did, how in all instances of duties and trials he carried himself, until an image or idea of his perfect holiness is implanted in our minds, and we are made like him thereby.
—John Owen "Discourse on the Holy Spirit"
Filed under A Puritan at Heart, Daily Quote, John Owen by on Mar 7th, 2010. 
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