The marvelous incarnation of God in heaven, with all the amazing condescension and humiliation that attended it, is ours. The bloody sweat, the scourge, the cross are ours forever. Whatever blissful consequences flow from perfect obedience, finished atonement, resurrection, ascension, or intercession, all are ours by His own gift. Upon His breastplate He is now [...]

The season of spring is welcome in its freshness. The long and dreary winter helps us to appreciate spring’s genial warmth, and its promise of summer enhances its present delights. After periods of spiritual depression, it is delightful to see again the light of the Son of Righteousness. Our slumbering graces rise from their lethargy, [...]

“And of all words that ever were spoken, were there ever any gentler, tenderer, humbler, lovelier than these? ‘Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall [...]

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will… Once I would make much ado, if I saw not the world carved and set in order to my liking; now I am silent, when I see God… is fattening and feeding the children of [...]

God is God. Because He is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will, a will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to.
And this:
The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may [...]

I glean so much from the Desiring God blog that I have to hold back from linking to it almost on a daily basis. Today John Piper’s topic was “Christ is the Staff of Old Age.” I particularly loved this part of his quote from Samuel Rutherford:
Therefore I commend Christ to you as the staff [...]

We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive His poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others. ~Elisabeth Elliot in Gateway to Joy

It is good to learn early on that suffering and God
are no contradiction,
but much more a necessary unity:
for me the idea that God himself suffered
was always one of the most convincing teachings
of Christianity.
I think that God is closer to suffering than to happiness,
and to find God in this manner gives peace and rest,
and a strong [...]

Believers are not dependent upon circumstances. Their joy comes not from what they have, but from what they are; not from where they are, but from whose they are; not from what they enjoy, but from that which was suffered for them by their Lord. It is a singular joy, then, because it often buds, [...]

I was looking through some of my quotes and saw this one. It made me laugh, and I just couldn’t resist sharing it.
Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ~George Herbert