In John Flavel’s Method of Grace he says this, “How humble and lowly in spirit should you be under your great advancement. It is true, God that magnified you greatly by this union; but yet do not boast. You bear not the root, but the root you. You shine, but with a borrowed light”.
Flavel points to the foundation of this website. One, that because of our union with Christ we have all the light, that such men as Edwards, Spurgeon, McCheyne, Paul, Peter, etc. have. Their light is also borrowed. Two, it serves to humble us. Any light which we might bring forth does not come from us. We are never the source of light. Therefore, we must always make certain that Jesus Christ is the only boast. Thus leading to my mandate:
“So live and so study and so serve and so preach and so write that Jesus Christ, the crucified and risen God, be the only boast of this generation”. Quoted from Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper.
