Happy Reformation

So Monday may've been Halloween. But don't forget that it was also Reformation Day! If honor of this day, some friends and I watched the movie Luther and made Toll House cookies. I am fully aware that this sounds extremely lame. But I am a self proclaimed theology nerd, and it actually beat dressing up! Last November I wrote this post about Martin Luther. So if you need a refresher on Reformation history, go read that. But this week has renewed my appreciation for God's faithfulness to preserve the accurate passage of his Gospel throughout the centuries, and for the men he used to do so. As I was watching the movie, (which I highly recommend by the way) I was struck over and over again by Martin Luther's staunch adherence to truth. He feared God more than he feared men, and was not going to compromise what Scripture taught in order to make people happy or even to save himself.
"For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ." Galatians 1:10
Let us not take for granted the things Luther, Calvin and Knox, etc. fought for. Because of their faithfulness to the Word of God we understand that salvation is completely a work of grace and not based on anything that we have done! What liberating truth! Praise be to God for not leaving me in my sin.