More reflections?

 It makes me happy to credit my niceness, my good manners, my loveliness, my good motives, all of it, to Christ, to be so thoroughly satisfied & convinced of his unblemished righteousness, to vitally rely on his saving grace...to take offense & concede that I am a sheep like hypocrite saved by a meek carpenter from Nazareth...saved despite my pious & public declaration of sin ‘s power in me, to be convinced I am okay in the perfect purity of Jesus, to be loved despite myself...Every good thing I have/do comes from Him, for without him I can do no good thing...”I must decrease, he must increase”