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Sweet Comfort in Suffering
Would you have sweet comfort in suffering and trial? Then keep in constant view your Savior’s humanity. He is the man Christ Jesus, who lay on the bosom of the Virgin Mary, as a little infant, and knows the heart of a man. He can be touched with the feeling of your infirmities. He has Himself experienced Satan’s temptations. He has endured hunger. He has shed tears. He has felt pain. Trust Him at all times with all your sorrows. He will not despise you. Pour out all your heart before Him in prayer, and keep nothing back. He can sympathize with His people.
J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on Matthew
HT: Reformed Quotes
Prayer, the Mirror of the Gospel
The gospel, God’s free gift of grace in Jesus, only works when we realize we don’t have it all together. The same is true for prayer. The very thing we are allergic to—our helplessness—is what makes prayer work. It works because we are helpless. We can’t do life on our own.
Prayer mirrors the gospel. In the gospel, the Father takes us as we are because of Jesus and gives us his gift of salvation. In prayer, the Father receives us as we are because of Jesus and gives us his gift of help. We look at the inadequacy of our praying and give up, thinking something is wrong with us. God looks as the adequacy of his Son and delights in our sloppy, meandering prayers.
Paul Miller, A Praying Life (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2009), 55
The First Purpose of the Gospel
God’s great and first design, in and by the gospel, is eternally to glorify Himself, His wisdom, goodness, love, grace, righteousness, and holiness, by Jesus Christ.
Not Satisfied with Christ Alone
Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
What It Takes To Preach Christ
It takes a crucified man to preach a crucified Savior.
God’s Own Sacrifice Complete
Calvary’s mournful mountain climb;
There adoring at His feet,
Mark that miracle of time —
God’s own sacrifice complete.
God Gave Himself To Purify unto Himself a Peculiar People
May we never forget that the suffering Son of God gave Himself to purify unto Himself a peculiar people—a people whose thoughts are peculiar, for their thoughts are the thoughts of God, as having the mind of Christ—a people whose affections are peculiar, for they are fixed on things above—a people whose prayers are peculiar, for they are wrought in their heart by the Spirit of grace and supplication—a people whose sorrows are peculiar, because they spring from a spiritual source—a people whose joys are peculiar, for they are joys which the stranger cannot understand—a people whose hopes are peculiar, as anchoring within the veil—a people whose expectations are peculiar, as not expecting to reap a crop of happiness in this marred world—but are looking for happiness in the kingdom of rest and peace in the bosom of God. They make it manifest that they are a peculiar people by walking in the footsteps of the Lord the Lamb—taking up the cross—denying themselves—and living to the honor, praise, and glory of God.
Christ and the Law of God
Christ gives what the Law requires. Whoever believes in Christ has what the law demands — righteousness.
Christ Arose
Life Is Worship 