Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

When hearts are purified by faith, Acts 15:9, everything proceeding from them is holy. The Holy Spirit diffuses His influence through the sanctified personality of the believer. The believer is a new creature in Christ Jesus, in whom all things have become new. His disposition toward God, his views of truth, his standard of judgment, his objects of admiration, his motives, his hopes, his entire life are new. Instead of seeking only self, he seeks God; instead of living only for earth and time, he lives for Heaven and eternity; instead of clinging only to what he can see and feel, he clings to what is beyond the range of sight and sense. His character deepens as the eternal and unseen more and more predominate in all that he thinks and does. The Holy Spirit works through him; and he cooperates with the Holy Spirit in the exercise of the new powers with which he is endowed. -- H. E. Jacobs, *Elements of Religion* p. 190-191