Some bits of beautiful, Biblical insights to warm these January days,
all from the Scotsman Samuel Rutherford.
“He takes his children in his arms when they come into deep waters; when they lose ground and are having to swim, then his hand is under their chin. I do see
that grace grows best in winter.”
“Since He looked upon me, my heart is not my own. He hath run away to heaven with it.”
“If your Lord calls you to suffering, be not dismayed; there shall be a new allowance of the King for you when you come to it. One of the softest pillows Christ has is laid under his witnesses’ head, though often they must set down their bare feet among thorns.”
“O, mercy for evermore, that there should be such a one as Christ Jesus – so boundless, so bottomless, so incomparable in infinite excellency and sweetness, and yet so few to take him! O, you poor dry and dead souls, why will you not come here with your vessels and your empty souls to this huge well of life and fill all your vessels? O, that Christ should be so large in sweetness and worth and we so narrow and void of happiness, and yet men will not take him! They lose their love miserably who will not bestow it upon this lovely One.”
“Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love has neither brim nor bottom.”
I love these quotes, Jenny! May we swim in the sea of his love!