Man the Crowning Creation 2/7 Friday Faith

I once listened to an eminent divine preaching from the text, "What is man?" and when he got through I had a feeling that man was a kind of whipped cur with his tail between his legs, sneaking out to throw himself into the lake saying, "Here goes nothing."   I said, "He has never caught the fire of the thing Jesus is endeavoring to teach through the apostle -- that man was the crowning creation of God.  That God endowed him with a nature and qualities that by the grace of God can express more of God than any other of God's creations."

-- John G. Lake