We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Thankfulness to God is a recognition that God in His goodness and faithfulness has provided for us and cared for us, both physically and spiritually. It is a recognition that we are totally dependent upon Him; that all that we are and have comes from God.
Jerry Bridges

Let Him therefore send and do what He will. By His grace, if we are His, we will face it, bow to it, accept it, and give thanks for it. God’s Providence is always executed in the ‘wisest manner’ possible. We are often unable to see and understand the reasons and causes for specific events in our lives, in the lives of others, or in the history of the world. But our lack of understanding does not prevent us from believing God.
Don Fortner

NINTH MEDITATION. I AM A CHRISTIAN

Having been baptized, I am a Christian.
Is this so, blessed Saviour? May I call my-
self a Christian? I feel and know myself to
be a sinner, in thought, word, and deed.
How then am I a Christian?

It shall be told thee “why thou art called
a Christian.” Take the words into thine
own mouth, and utter them from the heart
with thine own lips.

“Because I am a member of Christ by
faith, and thus am partaker of His anoint-
ing, that so I may confess His name, and
present myself a living sacrifice of thankful-
ness to Him; and also, that with a free and
good conscience I may fight against sin and
Satan in this life; and afterwards reign with
Him eternally over all creatures.” (Heid. Catch. Ques.32)

Blessed be Thy grace, Lord Jesus! In
my baptism Thou hast granted me the re-
mission of sins, given me the gift of the
Holy Ghost, and made me a member of Thy
body, and callest me a Christian! Help me
to accept, and claim, and live worthily of
this great grace.