Thanks John Newton!

I read this from Justin Taylor's blog(go see it here) that gets dumped in my email each day. I always enjoy the little things he has to say. I hope you find it equally encouraging. This tidbit is by John Newton who you can find out more about here. Good news friends, good news indeed.


I am not what I ought to be.
Ah! how imperfect and deficient.
Not what I might be,
considering my privileges and opportunities.
Not what I wish to be.
God, who knows my heart, knows I wish to be like him.
I am not what I hope to be;
ere long to drop this clay tabernacle, to be like him and see him as He is.
Not what I once was,
a child of sin, and slave of the devil.
Thought not all these,
not what I ought to be,
not what I might be,
not what I wish or hope to be, and
not what once was,
I think I can truly say with the apostle,
“By the grace of God I am what I am.”
—John Newton (1725-1807), cited in Letters of John Newton, p. 400.