Status Updates From The Bruised Reed

Let us know, therefore, that it is dangerous to look for that from ourselves which we must have from Christ.

And being fallen, in our risings up again it is Christ that must do the work, by removing, or weakening, or suspending the opposing hindrances; and by advancing the power of his grace in us, to a further degree than we had before we fell. Therefore when we have fallen, and by falls have been bruised, let us go to Christ immediately to bind us up again.

“Infirmities are a ground of humility, not a plea for negligence, not an encouragement to presumption.”

- The tree falls upon the last stroke, yet all the strokes help the work forward.

- Victory over pride by humble confession, then overcome unbelief by yielding to the promise of pardon, set ourselves against the sins which prevailed over us in confidence of Christ’s assistance.