To Him be the Praises

This afternoon I was listening to grace to you (that is the podcast of John MacArthur) and got to reading the whole chapter of Matthew chapter 6 and Pastor MacArthur was talking about fasting in vv. 16-18 and I read on to verse 22 and thought WOW, and then remembered Isaiah 6 about when he said he is so undone compared to the Lord. And I thought wow, what a wretch I was compared to the Lord Himself and how I don't deserve His grace and mercy and thought if it wasn't for the Lord and His grace and doing what He done I would make the worst of the worst person look like, well I don't even know what to say to that. Then I thought of the cross and was like WOW. What a God we have in Jesus Christ, who could have crushed us under the full force of His Law. And yet saved us not because we were worthy, but because of His loving-kindness so He can be praised for His work He done here. I don't know about you at first this might seem sad and you may have thought how depressing it is, but if you truly see yourself in the sight of His standards you will understand the cross. I pray that this will go right to your heart and make you praise Him who His worthy of all praises. 

 
 

   Here's what I was reading:

 
 

                   The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.
²³ But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Matt 6:22-23 (NKJV)

 
 

 
 

              You have heard that it was said to those of old,
'You shall not commit adultery.'
²⁸ But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matt 5:27-28 (NKJV)

 
 

                  So I said: "Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts."

Isaiah 6:5 (NKJV)