You have a heart fit to do the deed!

You have a heart fit to do the deed!

(J.C. Ryle, “The Gospel of Luke” 1858)

“But they kept shouting: Crucify Him! Crucify Him!” Luke 23:21 

Let us often pray that we may thoroughly understand the sinfulness of man’s heart. 

Christ is never fully valued–until sin is clearly seen. 

We must know the depth and malignity of our disease–in order to appreciate the great Physician.

Few of us, it may be feared, have the least conception of the strength and virulence of the spiritual disease with which we are born! Few entirely realize that “the carnal mind is enmity against God,” and that unconverted human nature, if it had the power–would cast its Maker down from His throne and crucify Him! 

The behavior of the Jews before us–is only a picture of what every natural man would do to God, if he only could! 

“If the bosom of God were within the reach of men, it would be stabbed a million of times in one moment! If the bosom of God were now within your reach, and one blow would rid the universe of God–you have a heart fit to do the deed!” Robert Murray M’Cheyne