Praise God—it is almost Sunday again. We get to go back to church! In order to help us prepare for Worship, here is Jonathan Edwards, from his sermon, entitled, “Safety, Fulness, and Sweet Refreshment in Christ.” . . .
“ . . . We are naturally like the Prodigal Son, for we once were rich, but we de-parted from our Father’s house, and have squandered away our wealth, and have become poor, hungry, famishing wretches.“Men in a natural condition may find something to gratify their senses, but there is nothing to feed the soul; that more noble and more essential part per-ishes for lack of food. They may fare sumptuously every day, they may pam-per their bodies, but the soul cannot be fed from a sumptuous table; they may drink wine from bowls, yet the spiritual part is not refreshed. The superior fac-ulties want to be supplied as well as the inferior. True poverty and true misery consist in the want of those things of which our spiritual part stands in
need. . . .
“There is in Christ Jesus provision for the full satisfaction and contentment of such as these. . . . "
“There is in Christ Jesus provision for the full satisfaction and contentment of such as these. . . . "
