God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
How is it that some of us are converted, while our companions in sin are left to persevere in their godless career? Was there anything good in us that moved the heart of God to save us? God forbid that we should indulge the blasphemous thought!
C.H. Spurgeon
Bible – russian – Синодальный перевод Псалтырь 116