God’s Diagnosis and Remedy
SOMETIME humanity will learn that God's diagnosis of its true condition is absolutely correct, and that all prescriptions of human theorizers, based on other conditions, are absolutely futile and worthless. Spiritual doctors, like some doctors of medicine, treat symptoms rather than conditions, and endeavor to cure by ameliorating effects rather than removing causes. God reveals humanity's true condition as without hope, alienated from the life of God, corrupt and corrupting. His remedy for it all is designed to meet just those conditions and cure them. He cleanses the fountain rather than endeavoring to filter the water; He uproots the deadly upas-tree of sin rather than seeking to destroy its fruit. He, and He only, can take the poor, wretched sinner and make him to the praise of the glory of His grace. All this to every soul in response to simple, childlike faith.