First place in your thoughts – Thomas Brooks

Friends, these things must have first place in your thoughts:

1. Your sins to humble you and abase you before God.

2. God’s free and rich and sovereign grace to soften and melt you down into submission to His holy will.

3. The Lord Jesus Christ to assist, help, strengthen, and influence you in all your duties and services.

4. The blessed Scriptures to guide you and lead you, “and to be a lamp unto your feet, and a light unto your paths.

5. The afflictions of the godly to draw out your charity, mercy, pity, sympathy and compassion to men in misery.

6. The glory and happiness of the eternal world to arm you and steel you against all your sins, snares and temptations.