Christian – Do you “thank” God for your conversion? You do because you know that God was entirely responsible for it. You thank God because you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or sound judgment, or good sense. Or do you?
Why do you believe the gospel and not your neighbor? Was the soil of your heart better than his by nature? Did you have wisdom that he did not? Where did this wisdom come from? From Christ or elsewhere?
We all must have faith in order to be justified. Question is, why do you have faith and not others. Do you attribute it to your own wisdom? Why were you more humble? Was it not grace itself that made you humble?
– John Hendryx