Today's encouragement comes from Matthew 17:8, where we read these words:
"When they [Peter, James, and John] had lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only.”Compared with the Lord Jesus Christ. everyone and everything else in the created world is individually and collectively very “small potatoes.” Even the great Moses and the eminent Elijah fade into virtual insignificance relative to the Messiah of God’s elect church.
. . . It is only when we saints are so enamored with Christ, that we experience the glories promised in the gospel of grace in the fullness of the Spirit. If we are regenerate, possessing new natures in Jesus, then we may (and should) ask God to give us His very best—and this will be manifest in a clear view of the resplendent and beautiful Redeemer.
[Puritan quote of the day: "In a word, as Christ's Person excels your person, so His obedience infinitely exceeds your disobedience.” —Christopher Love, in, "The Dejected Soul's Cure"]
[Puritan quote of the day: "In a word, as Christ's Person excels your person, so His obedience infinitely exceeds your disobedience.” —Christopher Love, in, "The Dejected Soul's Cure"]
