The main art in the matter of spiritual living is to know how to handle yourself. You have to take yourself in hand, you have to address yourself, preach to yourself, question yourself. You must say to your soul: 'Why art thou cast down-what business have you to be disquieted?' You must turn on yourself, upbraid yourself, condemn yourself, exhort yourself, and say to yourself: 'Hope thou in God' -instead of muttering in this depressed, unhappy way. And then you must go on to remind yourself of God, who God is, and what God is and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do. Then having done that, end on this great note: defy yourself, and defy other people, and defy the devil and the whole world, and say with this man: 'I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance, who is also the health of my countenance and my God.'
Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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#1 · November 14, 2012, 4:26 am

Posted by: randal <randal@...>

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Is There No Sight?
by J. Randal Matheny © 2012

Tell me, Lord, what is my servant gift?
I thought I knew, that you through me could lift
My neighbor toward the truth, but now my doubts
Leave me in confusion, with frequent bouts
Of anguish: why aren't spiritual fruits produced
Through my good labors? godly powers loosed
In Christ to build the kingdom for your praise?
Is there no sight, no sign, for all our days
Upon the earth? Must we go staggering blind,
Sowing, sowing, with nary a fruit to find,
Until, on that last day, discover how
The Spirit worked, silent at the plow?
If so, can I survive until that time,
To toil, tireless, while eating dust and grime?
Yes, yes, faith I need, and faithfulness,
Until that hour when you decide to bless!
Show me, Sovereign, when and how and where
To serve and, trusting, how to dare, to dare!

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