Quote of the Day – From the Institutes of Christian Religion by Calvin

The result of being in God’s presence is humility and an awe-striking sense of God’s greatness:

Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates, holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. When we see those who previously stood firm and secure so quaking with terror, that the fear of death takes hold of them, nay, they are, in a manner, swallowed up and annihilated, the inference to be drawn is that men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.
-Calvin

El estar en la presencia de Dios resulta en una repentina humildad de nuestra parte al sentir la magnificencia de Dios. Como lo relata Calvin:

Es una manera terrible e impresionante, que nos cuentan las Escrituras, con la que se encontraron hombres santos al ser sobrecogidos por la presencia de Dios. Cuando vemos aquellos que estaban solidos en sus pies temblar de terror con un real temor de morir, o aun mas, de ser aniquilados es de lo cual inferimos que los hombres no son propiamente concocedores y convencidos de su insignificancia hasta que se han contrastado con la majestad de Dios.

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