Status Updates From The Precious Things Of God

“Oh the blessedness, the quietness, the perfect piece of a cheerful acquiescence in the will of God! To have a blended will, a united heart, a submissive spirit with him and his government of you, is to be like God.”

“We are never more lovely in His view than when we appear the most uncomely in our own.”

O God, when I read thy heart in the cross, in the wounds, in the tears, in the anguish, in the blood of thy Son, Jesus Christ, how precious are thy thoughts unto me! — thoughts that planned and accomplished my redemption, by an expedient so vast, at a cost so precious.

Never is the believer so near to Christ's heart, and the Spirit's comforts, and Heaven's joys as when the flood of dark and broken waters is surging beneath and around him, lifting him upon their crested billows.

It is clear that chastisement or trial is an evidence and seal of adoption; and that without it we should lack that spiritual discipline, apart from which there is no proper symmetry and completeness of Christian character… God would make us happy, but He can only make us happy by making us holy.

You will know more of Jesus in one sanctified trial than in wading through a library of volumes or in listening to a lifetime of sermons.

To know fully what Christ is we must know something of adver-sity. We must be tried, tempted, and oppressed — we must taste the bitterness of sorrow, feel the pressure of want, tread the path of solitude, and often I be brought to the end of our own strength and of human sympathy and counsel. Jesus shines the brightest to faith's eye when all things are dark and dreary.