New Lutheran Quote of the Day

He has chosen to be available to us through things of our human world, through words, water, bread, and wine. Within the means of grace, God makes Himself known to us, imparts Himself and His salvation to us. There He would be found. It is folly to look elsewhere, though it pinches our pride to think of receiving God through a book, water, wine, and bread. Such pride is born of the thought that we can find God elsewhere and of ourselves. We cannot tell God who He is. God tells us.  God is found only by His disclosing Himself. -- Norman Nagel, Selected Sermons, p. 157