Thursday, January 31, 2008

From Richard Baxter

Richard Baxter gives a compassionate challenge to seek and find the mercies of God which are new every morning. While reading his encouragement I was reminded of the happiness found by those who recognize their deep and constant need of God's grace in their lives. I hope his words challenge and encourage you to stretch out your hands in petition to God for new mercies moment by moment. I pray you find the happiness of being sustained and carried along by God's grace. Here's the quote from Baxter, you'll notice his English is old, and his words relevant:

“Every day offereth you more and more mercies; and will you despise and lose them? If you were heirs to land, or had an annuity, which amounted but to a hundred pounds a year, and you were every day to receive a proportionable part of it, or lose it; would you lose it through neglect, and say, I will begin to receive it when I am old? Poor labourers will work hard all the day, that at night they may have their wages: and will you contemptuously lose your every day's mercies, your safety, your communion with God, your daily blessings and his grace, which you should daily beg and may daily receive?”



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks!!

Don