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Your rock doth not ebb and flow, but your sea.
Samuel Rutherford
The Loveliness of Christ5.7K
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Christians care about all suffering, especially eternal suffering. Else they have a defective heart or a flameless hell.(Lasaunne conference)
The pain of our shattered plans is for the purpose of scattered grace. Suffering and the Sovereignty of God(106)
Do you wonder about the trials in your life? Well let me just let you know the purpose of them is to cut away everything in your life, so that Jesus does become your life, and it's worth it.
Those who know true joy in the midst of suffering are those who recognize that, in this life, our suffering is never as great or as serious as our sins. Humility: True Greatness (Chapter 11)
As sure as God puts His children in the furnace he will be in the furnace with them.
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Look rather at God's end in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.
Believe God's word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your Rock is Christ, and it is not the Rock which ebbs and flows, but your sea.
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord.
Sickness, and losses, and crosses, and anxieties, and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful, and spiritual minded. Holiness (Chapter 6)
Many coals make a good fire, and that is a part of the communion of saints.
Faith may dance because Christ sings.Garden of Spices
If we knew the glory of our elder Brother in heaven, we should long to be there to see Him. We children think the earth a fair garden, but compared with the garden of the Lord it is but wild, cold, barren ground. All things are fading that are here; it is our happiness to make sure of Christ.
If you win Christ, though not in the sweet and pleasant way you would have Him, it is enough. For the Well Beloved comes not our way; He must choose His way Himself. He cuts off your love to the creature that you might learn that God only is the right owner of your love, sorrow, loss, sadness, death, or the worst things that are.
O that the heaven, and the heaven of heavens were paper, and the sea ink, and the multitude of mountains pens of brass, and I able to write my dearest, my loveliest, my sweetest, my matchless, and my most unequaled and marvelous Well Beloved! Woe is me, I cannot set Him out to men and angels! I am put to my wit's end how to get His name made great. How sweet is Christ's back! O, what there is in His face! Those that see His face, how are they able to get their eye plucked off Him again!Garden of Spices, 41
O, what owe I to the file, to the hammer, to the furnace of my Lord Jesus! Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more than grace; it is glory in its infancy. Who knows the truth of grace without a trial?Garden of Spices, 151-152
Grace is not educed or extracted out of the potency of any created nature. Grace is born in heaven, and came from the inmost of the heart of Christ; it hath neither seed nor parent on earth, therefore the Lord challengeth it as his own
It is an abasement of Christ, that he who gives such a ransom to justice for free-grace, should wait for a penny from sinners; that sinners must bid and buy, and engage him to give, and Christ say, you must give me more, I must sell, not give grace for nothing. Your penny-worths cannot roll about that everlasting wheel of free-grace, the decree of election, or bow or break Christ's free heart to save you, rather than another.https://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
I covered (saith Christ) thy nakedness. O what a garment of glory is the imputed righteousness of Christ! Bring forth the best robe, and put on him. This is the white raiment that clothed the shame of our nakedness.https://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
The manner of grace's working on saints is gracious, and so essentially free; as is evident in our first drawing to Christ, when many sins are forgiven, and so the soul loves much; and the sweetest burden in heaven, or out of heaven, is a burden of the love of Christhttps://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
there lies and flows such a sea and ocean of infinite love about the heart, and in the bowels of Jesus Christ, as would over-save, and out-love infinite world of sinnershttps://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
But for the ground, reason and cause on Christ's part of drawing, it is free-grace, and only free-grace; https://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
Men have a sort of satisfaction in their natural condition: a whole man desires no physician. A dead man hath some negative content to lie in grave; he can have no acts of sorrow for want of life. (2.) We do not put forth any stirring of life or desire toward that which is naturally above us: a child in the belly hath no acts toward a crown or a kingdom in this life, because desires are bottomed and founded on nature; as an ape, or a horse, hath no desire to be a man.https://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
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