Required reading
The Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Letters 53 to 54.
My summary
Today we read letters addressed to:
(i) John Gordon;
(ii) Parishioners of Kilmacolm.
Rutherford spoke about:
(i) salvation;
(ii) idolatry;
(iii) assurance;
(iv) suffering;
(v) service;
(vi) Satan;
(vii) his new ministry opportunities.
What grabbed me
I liked this advice: 'I recommend Christ and His love to you, in all things ; let Him have the flower of your heart and your love. Set a low price upon all things but Christ, and cry down in your thoughts clay and dirt, that will not comfort you when ye get summons to remove, and appear before your Judge to answer for all the deeds done in the body. The Lord give you wisdom in all things. I beseech you sanctify God in your speaking, for holy and reverend is His name ; and be temperate and sober. Companionry with the bad is a sin, that holdeth many out of heaven. '
Christ must be our all in all.
Next week's reading
Read Letters 55 to 58.
Now it's your turn
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