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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: thus:--
Lo! my God, without merit on my part, of His pure and free mercy,
has given to me, an unworthy, condemned, and contemptible
creature all the riches of justification and salvation in Christ,
so that I no longer am in want of anything, except of faith to
believe that this is so. For such a Father, then, who has
overwhelmed me with these inestimable riches of His, why should I
not freely, cheerfully, and with my whole heart, and from
voluntary zeal, do all that I know will be pleasing to Him and
acceptable in His sight? I will therefore give myself as a sort
of Christ, to my neighbour, as Christ has given Himself to me;
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