Thursday, September 23, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
When God Doesn't Remove Our Afflictions
Matthew Henry wrote this:
Men do not notice the mercies they enjoy in and under their
afflictions, nor are thankful for them, therefore they cannot expect that God should deliver them out of affliction. He gives songs in the night; when our condition is dark and melancholy, there is that in God’s providence and promise, which is sufficient to support us, and to enable us even to rejoice in tribulation. When we only pore upon our afflictions, and neglect the consolations of God which are treasured up for us, it is just in God to reject our prayers. Even the things that will kill the body, cannot hurt the soul. If we cry to God for the removal of an affliction, and it is not removed, the reason is, not because the Lord’s hand is shortened, or his ear heavy; but because we are not sufficiently humbled.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Baxter on dividends of calling men to lead their families
Get masters of families to do their duty, and they will not only spare you a great deal of labor, but will much further the success of your labors.... You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation. Some little religion there may be, here and there; but while it is confined to single persons, and is not promoted in families, it will not prosper, nor promise much future increase.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Edwards quotation
Another Saturday night, (Jan. 1739,) I had such a sense, how sweet and blessed a thing it was to walk in the way of duty; to do that which was right and meet to be done, and agreeable to the holy mind of God; that it caused me to break forth into a kind of loud weeping, which held me some time, so that I was forced to shut myself up, and fasten the doors. I could not but, as it were, cry out, ‘How happy are they, who do that which is right in the sight of God! They are blessed indeed, they are the happy ones!’
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