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The more we know of ourselves the more we prize Jesus

August 18, 2010 by Christina

“Therefore fear none of the things appointed for you to suffer by the way, but gird up the loins of your mind, and hope to the end. Be not impatient, but wait humbly upon the Lord. You have one hard lesson to learn, that is, the evil of your own heart: you know something of it, but it is needful that you should know more; for the more we know of ourselves, the more we shall prize and love Jesus and His salvation. I hope what you find in yourself by daily experience will humble you, but not discourage you; humble you it should, and I believe it does. Are not you amazed sometimes that you should have so much as a hope that, poor and needy as you are, the Lord thinketh of you? But let not all you feel discourage you; for if our Physician is almighty, our disease cannot be desperate; and if He casts none out that come to Him, why should you fear? Our sins are many, but His mercies are more: our sins are great, but His righteousness is greater: we are weak, but He is power.

John Newton, Our Good Shepherd

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  1. Petra Hefner says

    August 18, 2010 at 12:33 pm

    Awesome quote, and so encouraging!

  2. Diane says

    August 18, 2010 at 5:12 pm

    What comfort

    • Diane says

      August 18, 2010 at 5:13 pm

      “Precious Jesus, strengthen Your poor dust, and enable me to cling closer and closer to You.” Mary Winslow

      Thank you Christina!

  3. persis says

    August 18, 2010 at 7:41 pm

    Amen! I think the degree that we find grace amazing is proportional to how wretched we know ourselves to be.

  4. Paul D. Adams says

    August 18, 2010 at 10:50 pm

    “if our Physician is almighty, our disease cannot be desperate.”
    Oh to know the almighty power of the sovereign God who leaves no detail out of his mysterious plan to empower, embolden, to shape, mold, make, and break us unto the conformity of Christ Jesus our Lord. “I believe; help my unbelief!”

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