“I have always found it depressing to listen to the kind of people who, whenever you meet them, will always for sure tell you the story of their conversion many years ago. They tell you that story every time. I have known people do exactly the same thing with revival….. There is always something about an initial experience that is remarkable and outstanding. And a time of revival is so amazing and wonderful that it is not surprising that people go on talking about it. But, if they give the impression that they have had nothing since that wonderful experience, that ever after they have been walking through a wilderness, and traveling through a desert, then it is absolutely wrong….Their idea of the Christian life is of a dramatic experience, perhaps at the outset, after which they just trudge along, living on the strength of that and partly keeping their eye turned backwards as they go forward. “
Heavenly Springs
Holding Fast The Doctrines of Grace
Amen! Just as the manna provided in the wilderness was new each morning, so should our experience with God’s mercies be new every morning. Spiritual ketosis will only make us sick.
Love Martyn Lloyd-Jones!
Thank you Christina!
Thanks, Diane! I’ve been skulking around Steven’s library and I’ve discovered Martyn Llody-Jones!
Not sure if you had a chance to read the link I posted but he talks about how the wine that Jesus provided at Cana as “not just a temporary supply to the marriage guests which quickly runs out. No, no; it is enough for the whole occasion until the wedding is over.”
“And that is a picture of what he does in our lives. Indeed, there is a phrase here which puts it very beautifully and will help us to remember it. The governor of the feast says, ‘Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.’ Not the beginning but now, much later on, when the proceedings have gone on for some time and it is towards the end. And this is something very wonderful: the best is at the end.”
Isn’t that encouraging?
Anyway, I love you and I hope you had a beautiful weekend!
I really like Martyn Lloyd-Jones! I’ve only read a few of his books, but I appreciate how he consistently applies the gospel.
That is an excellent way to describe the little bit that I’ve been fortunate enough to read. I just visited Diane’s blog and she has posted a prayer by him that knocks my socks off! It’s a prayer that is every bit as relevant today as it was when he offered it.
Blessings to you, Persis! I hope you had a wonderful weekend!
Great post and awesome comments! And yes, that prayer does knock one’s socks off! Blessings and love to all of you!