Required reading
The Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Letters 55 to 58.
My summary
Today we read letters addressed to:
(i) Alexander Leighton;
(ii) James Wilson;
(iii) David Dickson;
Rutherford spoke about:
(i) suffering;
(ii) heaven;
(iii) Christ's worthiness;
(iv) doubts;
(v) spiritual lethargy;
(vi) hardness of heart;
(vii) death of children;
(viii) sovereignty of God;
(ix) the Westminster Assembly.
What grabbed me
I continue to love Rutherford's descriptions of Christ: 'Oh ! who can add to Him who is that great All ! If He would create suns and moons, new heavens, thousand and thousand degrees more perfect than these that now are ; and again, make a new creation ten thousand thousand degrees in perfection beyond that new creation ; and again, still for eternity multiply new heavens, they should never be a perfect resemblance of that infinite excellency, order, weight, measure, beauty, and sweetness that is in Him. Oh, how little of Him do we see ! Oh, how shallow are our thoughts of Him ! Oh, if I had pain for Him, and shame and losses for Him, and more clay and spirits for Him ! and that I could go upon earth without love, desire, hope, because Christ hath taken away my love, desire, and hope to heaven with Him ! I know, worthy Sir, your sufferings for Him are your glory ; and, therefore, weary not. His salvation is near at hand, and shall not tarry. Pray for me. His grace be with you.'
Created things are never more glorious than the creator himself.
Next week's reading
Read Letters 59 to 65.
Now it's your turn
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