By God's Word at Last My Sin I Learned
From where do you know your sins and misery? From the law of God. The knowledge of misery is a knowing by faith or as we might also call it: a faith knowledge. We come to know this in the relationship of faith in Jesus Christ, and without that relationship it does not exist. With that we are assured that there is no knowledge of misery, in the sense that it is meant here, without the knowledge of redemption. Faith focuses on the whole of God’s Word and can never accept one aspect of the truth of God without the other. We can never submit in faith to the judgment of God without that same faith taking hold of the gospel of redemption. God’s Word and faith are certainly distinct, but faith from its very beginning embraces God’s entire revelation in its various dimensions, even if it is only in embryo. Therefore, we cannot possibly address the matter of our misery except in terms of the knowledge of faith. Without faith...
