What an unspeakable grace it is that God speaks to us through His word, and speaks so graciously to us that He thereby proclaims and announces His blessed peace and eternal kingdom to us. O Lord God, why are we not proud and hopeful, and boast that we hear God speak to us so warmly and kindly, of eternal peace, life and blessedness? Oh fie you, you shameful, sorrowful unbelief, how you rob us of such great glory! O woe to you, damned world, eternal, who with hearing ears are deaf, and with seeing eyes are blind, and want to be and remain willful!
Luc. 10, 26.