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The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

This is the Puritan Reading Challenge book for the month of April. I showed the book to a friend on Tuesday. She was hooked just from reading the table of contents. I am hoping that she and another sister in Christ will be interested in reading this book together. So often I read too fast and too much and lose what I have read. (Sometimes I think I overload my brain even with good reading so I am like a computer system that is thrashing.) By reading this together and having regular fellowship on the truth, we can encourage one another to lay hold of what we have read. The author, Jeremiah Burroughs, was burdened that believers would experience the grace of contentment during these "sad and sinking times". The book was first published in 1648, 360 years ago. If those days were sad and sinking, how much worse are the times we live in. If often seems that some days, I am barely keeping my head above water. I pray that the Lord would use this to bring me into the "gracious f...

Thankfulness

If you wish to be thankful, get a heart deeply humbled with the sense of your own vileness. A broken heart is the best pipe to sound forth God's praise. He who studies his sins wonders that he has anything and that God should shine on such a dunghill: 'Who has before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, but I obtained mercy' (1 Tim. 1:13). How thankful Paul was! How he trumpeted forth free grace! A proud man will never be thankful. He looks on all his mercies as either of his own procuring or deserving. If he has an estate, this he has got by his wits and industry, not considering that scripture, 'Thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth' (Deut. 8:18). Pride stops the current of gratitude. O Christian, think of your unworthiness; see yourself the least of saints and the chief of sinners, and then you will be thankful. ~ from a Godly Man's Picture by Thomas Watson