Tag Archives: Christ

Your Unchangeable Friend

Posted on by under Jonathan Edwards

You may greatly comfort yourself that you have an unchangeable friend in Christ Jesus.  From the unchangeableness of your Savior, you may be assured of your continuance in a state of grace.  As to yourself, you are so changeable, that, if left to yourself, you would soon fall utterly away. But Christ is the same, and therefore, when he has begun a good work in you he will finish it. As he has been the author, he will be the finisher of your faith.

When once you have entered on the happiness of heaven, it never shall be taken from you, because Christ, your Savior and friend, who bestows it on you, and in whom you have it, is unchangeable.  He will be the same forever and ever, and therefore so will be your happiness in heaven.

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

Living a Life Like Christ’s

Posted on by under William Temple

It is no good giving me a play like Hamlet or King Lear, and telling me to write a play like that. Shakespeare could do it — I can’t. And it is no good showing me a life like the life of Jesus and telling me to live a life like that. Jesus could do it — I can’t. But if the genius of Shakespeare could come and live in me, then I could write plays like this. And if the Spirit could come into me, then I could live a life like this.

William Temple (1881-1944)

HT: Desiring God Blog