tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905807.post1819241611454511735..comments2023-11-03T01:55:20.572-07:00Comments on Flying Embers: FCBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741867097151481332noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905807.post-50785158376209232852008-05-06T18:10:00.000-07:002008-05-06T18:10:00.000-07:00I love that quote you posted of Jonathan Edwards. ...I love that quote you posted of Jonathan Edwards. That type of insight and teaching is why I read the Puritan works. I get more from that one quote than many entire sermons preached today (my son's excepted).<BR/>I have only one book of Edwards, but now I will have to get it out because the 'mountains of duty and trials' get pretty wearisome at times for me as well.FCBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741867097151481332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905807.post-84980135016531048212008-05-05T07:07:00.000-07:002008-05-05T07:07:00.000-07:00I love this quote from Jonathan Edwards. I've thou...I love this quote from Jonathan Edwards. I've thought about it and chewed on it multiple times since the first time I read it. When I read this blog post of yours, I thought of this paragraph, and I hope you'll enjoy it. <BR/><BR/>"All gracious affections that are a sweet odor to Christ, and that fill the soul of a Christian with a heavenly sweetness and fragrancy, are brokenhearted affections. A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble brokenhearted love. The desires of the saints, however<BR/>earnest, are humble desires: their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable, and full of glory, is a humble<BR/>brokenhearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit, and<BR/>more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behavior."Melhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16516485538999541969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905807.post-42514777162816682212008-05-05T06:53:00.000-07:002008-05-05T06:53:00.000-07:00I love this post. It is especially timely for me b...I love this post. It is especially timely for me because of this extraordinary season of revelation and renewal I've been going through, and because pride has always been my deepest and most consistent and frequent struggle. <BR/><BR/>It seems that God has a way of planting prayers in people, prayers that they will pray over and over again because they echo God's heart and that believer's own God-given spiritual chemistry in a beautiful blending. One such thing He has led me to pray, every time I feel my heart leaning towards pride, which is disturbingly often, is this: "Oh God, humble my heart and remind me again and again and again how desperately I need You and how thoroughly I depend on You." <BR/><BR/>This joy in Him, this unending joy that comes from really knowing Him and trusting Him, it doesn't seem change or fade because it's based in His truth and His glory which never changes. But it also comes with the knowledge that if the joy of the Lord is my strength, it's very likely He has given me strength for a very difficult task, or path. And that's all good, or, should I say, "That's all God!"Melhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16516485538999541969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905807.post-8942932541467136122008-05-05T03:16:00.000-07:002008-05-05T03:16:00.000-07:00mountains of duty and trials... well put. I'm not ...mountains of duty and trials... well put. I'm not looking for comfort, I'm looking for the end of the trail. -matAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com