The Scandal by Ted Slater on Nov 6, 2006 at 11:15 AM

Frankly, it's rare that I'm able to say something more meaningfully than someone else. Today is a typical day, in that Tim Challies addresses the scandal of Pastor Ted Haggard's fall far better than I could. Consider these sentences from Tim's post:

I am the greatest sinner I know.... Every day I have to peer into my dark heart and beg God for forgiveness. Every day I see again how my heart is dark and black and awful and filled with enmity towards God.... I sit here and weep for Haggard and his family and his church, but selfishly, I weep even more for myself, knowing that I, too, could be in such a situation....

It is only the grace of God that, like a spider being held over the flame by a nearly-invisible web, prevents me from giving in to all the sin that is in me and being dragged down by it. Oh, that He would continue to extend this grace! And oh, that I would take heed lest I, too, fall, for what is in Haggard is in me.

Read the rest of it here.

HT: Justin Taylor's Between Two Worlds.