Of Worthiness and Grace

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Isaiah knew he wasn’t worthy to have seen the Lord; he called himself part of “a people of unclean lips.”

Paul knew he wasn’t worthy in and of himself to be called an apostle; after all, he’d persecuted Christians.

Peter knew he wasn’t worthy of Jesus’s gifts; after all, he had grumbled about futility before obeying his friend and putting out the...