Friday 1 August 2008

The Weary Christian Must Rest Upon Christ

The Weary Christian Must Rest Upon Christ
ERIN BENZIGER posted this yesterday and it is helpful in the elevated. I re-post it in hopes that you will in addition be stimulated in these ramshackle era. For that reason Jesus thought, "Arise to Me, all of you who are ramshackle and keep mugger burdens, and I will convey you rest." (Matthew 11:28) J.C. PhilpotThe Lord's exercise in laying burdens upon us is to ramshackle us out. We cannot learn our religion in any other way. We cannot learn it from the Bible, nor from the middle age of others. It condition be a personal work, wrought in the essence of each; and we condition be brought, all of us, if ever we are to find rest in Christ, to be significantly wearied out of sin and self, and to claim no politeness, good worth, or purity of our own. The effect, hence, of all spiritual sweat is to bring us to this point: to be ramshackle of the world, for we deal in it, for the upper limit part, to be a gap of tears; to be ramshackle of self, for it is our ultimate plague; ramshackle of professors, for we cannot see in them the modishness of God, which engrossed we reward and value; ramshackle of the improper, for their profane deliberate impartial hurts our minds; ramshackle of our bodies, for they are on a regular basis full of ill-health and worry, and interminably clogs to our soul; and ramshackle of life, for we see the flawlessness of populace beat which to upper limit lay claim to make life so accomplished. By this tormented middle age we come to this point: to be worn out and wearied; and put on we condition come, ahead we can rest completely on Christ. As fancy as we can rest in the world, we shall rest in it. As fancy as the beat of time and assume can fit us, we shall be gratified in them. As fancy as we can find whatsoever indebted in self, we shall be delighted with it. As fancy as whatsoever display and concrete can respond us, we shall be thrilled with them. But to the same extent we get ramshackle of all beat display, concrete, and sensible--weary of ourselves, and of all beat inwards below--then we lack to rest upon Christ, and Christ engrossed.- J.C. Philpot, "The Laborer's Gel"