When a preacher comes to the text to prepare his sermon, he ought to come as an agnostic.

“You formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” Psalm 139:13–14

In 1967, Paul McCartney sang, “I’ve got to admit it’s getting better, a little better all the time.” On that Beatles track, John and George sang a response: “It can’t get no worse.”1 That response was an honest lyric in the 1960s—and many may feel it’s still an apt description today.

“God is able to sweep all of our failures and our disappointments into fulfilling His purpose, so that the great and transcendent power might be seen to belong not to the old clay pots which are our lives but to … the Lord Jesus.” —Alistair Begg