"Reader, remember this: if thy knowledge do not now affect thy heart, it will at last, with a witness, afflict thy heart; if it do not now endear Christ to thee, it will at last provoke Christ the more against thee; if it do not make all the things of Christ to be very precious in thy eyes, it will at last make thee the more vile in Christ's eyes." Thomas Brooks
"A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions."
"Truth is mighty and will prevail."
Thomas Brooks was an English Puritan (1608-1680). We will leave him for now with this gem from his classic book Heaven on Earth
The trifles which God gives
The emperor Augustus, in his great feasts, gave
trifles to some—but gold to his favorites.
Just so—honors, riches and worldly pleasures are
the trifles which God gives to the worst of men.
God gives His gold—His special love and grace—only
to His people.
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