Recognizing that this would raise further questions, Chalmers turned his attention to those who may have a predisposition to refute anything that sounded remotely like antinomianism. He noted,
That very peculiarity which so many dread as the germ of Antinomianism, is, in fact, the germ of a new spirit and a new inclination against it. Along with the lights of a free gospel does there enter the love of the gospel, which, in proportion as you impair the freeness, you are sure to chase away. And never does the sinner find within himself so mighty a moral transformation as when, under the belief that he is saved by grace, he feels constrained thereby to offer his heart a devoted thing, and to deny ungodliness.
Understanding the nature of desire and grasping the greatness of the grace of God in the gospel in our everyday experience is so much a part of use learning to succeed in living the Christian life. There will be many times when we fail to desire what is greatest, and will return to the lesser desires of the things of this world. However, as we keep our eyes fixed on the crucified and risen Christ, our hearts will be drawn off of the lesser things of this life. As the hymn-writer so beautifully put it:
Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in his wonderful face,Â
And the things of earth will grow faintly dim
in the light of his glory and grace.
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