Prayer Treasures from the Past
Often when I work on a project, I go back to some of the
very early writings and devotionals that followed the same
theme I am pursuing. Rich language and imagery gives these
prayers sticking power. A phrase or two will lodge in your
memory and feed you for some time to
come.
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Grace Gems!
Oh Stand and Wonder!
(Thomas Brooks, "The
Crown and Glory of Christianity,
or,
HOLINESS, the Only Way to Happiness", 1662)
"How great is the love the Father has lavished on us,
that
we should be
called children of God!" 1 John 3:1
O sirs! what matter of admiration is this--that the
great and glorious God, who has many millions of
glorious angels attending Him--that He should . . .
look
upon all holy
people as His sons, and
love
them as His
sons, and
delight
in
them as His sons, and
clothe
them as His
sons, and
feed
them as His
sons, and
protect
them as His
sons!
What great love is this--that those who have . . .
so highly provoked God,
walked so cross and contrary to God,
were so exceeding unlike God,
preferred every lust, and every toy and vanity
before God,
fought many years under Satan's banner against God,
refused all the kind offers of mercy from God;
that those who have deserved to be . . .
reprobated by God,
damned by God, and
to be thrown to hell by God--
that these should be made the sons of God!
Oh stand and wonder! Oh stand and
admire the
freeness
of
His grace, and the riches
of
His grace!
"How great is the love the Father has lavished on us,
that
we should be
called children of God!"
1 John 3:1
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