The hardness of heart is a blindness we can’t even see to get rid of, a dependence on ourselves that we cannot even distinguish from ourselves. And because this pride isn’t something we can see to get rid of, and because this hardness of heart isn’t something we can even distinguish from ourselves, it is not something we can ever end. We cannot end our own hardness of heart. We cannot end our unwillingness and unbelief. And so in order to bury something so close to us, something we can’t even see, something we think we think is the same as ourselves, this Word must be nearer to us than we are
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