Thank God—it is almost Sunday! In order to help get us ready for church, here is Richard Sibbes, from his, "The Bruised Reed" book. . . .
"Again, remember this, that Christ rules us by a spirit of love, from a sense of His love—whereby His commandments are easy to us. He leads us by His free Spirit, a Spirit of liberty. His subjects are willing ones. The constraint that He lays upon His subjects is that of love. He draws us sweetly with the cords of love."Yet remember also that He draws us strongly by a Spirit of power. For it is not sufficient that we have motives and encouragements to love and obey Christ from that love of His, whereby He gave Himself for us to justify us; but Christ's Spirit must likewise subdue our hearts, and sanctify them to love Him, without which all motives would be ineffectual."
