Two Kinds of People

Keller says that there are two kinds of people, but not the kinds we typically think of. Normally, we divide the world into good and bad. But according to the gospel, the world is not full of either good people or bad people— it is full of humble people and proud people. It is not that the good are in and the bad are out. Rather, the humble are in and the proud are out. Keller says, "The people who confess they aren't particularly good or open-minded are moving toward God, because the prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it... Though the older son stayed at home, he was actually more distant and alienated from the father than his brother, because he was blind to his true condition... being an elder-brother Pharisee is a more spiritually desperate condition." Whoa. 

As an elder-brother plagued sinner, I am praying for eyes to see my true condition, and for eyes to see the wonder of the gospel expressed in the cross of Jesus.