‘God’ stamped and printed upon the soul – Thomas Brooks
‘God’ stamped and printed upon the soul – Thomas Brooks Christians! Your happiness on earth is your holiness; and in heaven your highest happiness will be your perfect holiness. Holiness differs nothing from happiness but in name. Holiness is happiness in the bud, and happiness is holiness at the full. Happiness is nothing but the […]
Zeuxis died laughing at the picture of an old woman – Thomas Brooks
Zeuxis died laughing at the picture of an old woman – Thomas Brooks As the life of man is very short, so it is very uncertain.Now healthy now sick! Alive this hour and dead the next! Death does not always give warning beforehand; sometimes he gives the mortal blow suddenly; he comes behind with his […]
Your unworthiness and unfitness – Thomas Brooks
Your unworthiness and unfitness – Thomas Brooks The apostle Paul tells you of some monstrous miscreants who were unrighteous, fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, homosexuals, thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, extortioners; and yet these monsters of mankind, through the infinite goodness and free grace of God, are washed from the filth and guilt of their sins, and justified […]
Your spots and blots – Thomas Brooks
Your spots and blots – Thomas Brooks “The Lord our righteousness.” Jeremiah 23:6They are without fault before the throne of God.” Rev. 14:5 Weak hearts are apt to sit down troubled and discouraged, when they look upon that body of sin which is in them, and those imperfections which attend their best services. They are […]
Your only hell – Thomas Brooks
Your only hell – Thomas Brooks All your crosses and losses shall be so tempered by a hand of heaven, as that they shall become wholesome medicines. They shall be steps to your future glory. All your present trials are your only hell; your heaven is to come. And therefore be contented in the midst […]
You take the goods – Thomas Brooks
You take the goods – Thomas Brooks “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?” Psalm 42:1-2 The rattle without the breast, will not satisfy the child, the house without […]
You should follow in His steps – Thomas Brooks
You should follow in His steps – Thomas Brooks “He who says he abides in Him, ought himself also to walk even as He walked.” 1 John 2:6 Christians are to set all Christ’s moral actions before them as a pattern for their imitation. In Christ’s life, a Christian may behold the picture or lineaments […]
You have been long a-gathering rust – Thomas Brooks
You have been long a-gathering rust – Thomas Brooks Oh! but my afflictions are greater than other men’s afflictions are! Oh! there is no affliction like my affliction! How can I not murmur? It may be your sins are greater than other men’s sins. If you have sinned against . . .more light,more love,more mercies,more […]
You have afflicted me – Thomas Brooks
You have afflicted me – Thomas Brooks “I know, O Lord, that Your laws are righteous, and in faithfulness You have afflicted me.” Psalm 119:75 “Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I obey Your word.” Psalm 119:67 God’s corrections are our instructions,His lashes are our lessons,His scourges are our schoolmasters,His chastisements are […]
You have a greater interest in me, than I have in myself – Thomas Brooks
You have a greater interest in me, than I have in myself – Thomas Brooks The godly man gives himself up to God. The secret language of the soul is this ‘Lord, here am I; do with me what You please, I give up myself to be at Your disposal.’ There was a good woman, […]