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Calvin's Institutes: February 23
Human reason longs to know God, to trust His favor, and to live rightly—but Calvin refuses to let us flatter ourselves about how far that reason can truly go. In these sections, he presses the reader into humility by showing that even our brightest insights into God remain flashes in the dark unless the Spirit Himself gives sight. Scripture, conscience, moral instinct, even Christ preached openly—all of these remain ineffective unless God illumines the heart from within. Calvin’s argument is relentless and pastoral at once: natural reason leaves us without excuse, but never without need. What…
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