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The cross focuses on the utter spiritual poverty of human beings and locates our righteousness in Christ alone. The cross is an offense because it proclaims the weakness, the ungodliness, and the inability of human beings to please God. It calls on us to place all our hope for righteousness in Christ, and such a message is a great scandal for all who worship themselves and are entranced with their ability. Perseverance, then, is nothing other than grasping the scandal of the cross until the day we die.
- Thomas Schreiner, Run to Win the Prize (2010)

clinging as tightly as I am able.