Are you mourning, believer, because you are so weak in the divine life: because your faith is so little, your love so feeble? Cheer up, for you have cause for gratitude. Remember that in some things you are equal to the greatest and most full-grown Christian. You are as much bought with blood as he is. You are as much an adopted child of God as any other believer.
You are as completely justified, for your justification is not a thing of degrees: your little faith has made you clean every whit. You have as much right to the precious things of the covenant as the most advanced believers, for your right to covenant mercies lies not in your growth, but in the covenant itself; and your faith in Jesus is not the measure, but the token of your inheritance in Him. You are as rich as the richest, if not in enjoyment, yet in real possession.
Am I but little in Israel? Yet in Christ I am made to sit in heavenly places. Am I poor in faith? Still in Jesus I am heir of all things. "
He is a poet. Do you know it? Charles Spurgeon's writing inspires me. Doesn't inspire me to do anything, it just inspires me. haha.
but wow, I love my church ANC so much. We love each other, not by what we do, not by how many times we show up, how much we contribute, how many encouraging things we can say to one another, how well we can pray, etc., but we love because we know that we are precious. We are precious because of what we are (not what we do).... And what we are?.... we are justified. We are Israel. We're the same you and me. We're like, totally, like the same, y'know?
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I was thinking who this Spurg. character was, but was relieved to find out it's one of my heroes.
I need stuff like this during work days. Sweet. Thanks.
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