Dod: no complaints

Monday, September 14, 2020
    Feast of the Holy Cross
Meditation:
    [The LORD] does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.
    —Psalm 103:10 (NIV)
Quotation:
    I have no reason to complain of any crosses, because they are the bitter fruit of my sin. Nothing shall hurt us but sin; and that shall not hurt us, if we can repent of it. And nothing can do us good but the love and favour of God in Christ; and that we shall have if we seek it in good earnest. Afflictions are God’s potions, which we may sweeten by faith and prayer; but we often make them bitter, by putting into God’s cup the ill ingredients of impatience and unbelief. There is no affliction so small but we shall sink under it, if God uphold us not: and there is no sin so great but we shall commit it, if God restrain us not. A man who hath the spirit of prayer hath more than if he hath all the world. And no man is in a bad condition, but he who hath a hard heart and cannot pray.
    ... John Dod (c.1549-1645), as quoted in The Lives of the Puritans, v. III, Benjamin Brook, London: J. Black, 1813, p. 3 (see the book)
    See also Ps. 103:8-10; Isa. 6:9-10; Jer. 46:28; Matt. 9:13; 12:34; 1 Thess. 3:2-3; Jas. 4:8; 1 Pet. 4:13-14; Rev. 3:19
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, cure forever my unbelief. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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