Dolls and rattles – Thomas Brooks

The thoughts and hearts of weak Christians are more taken up with the good things they have from Christ than with Christ Himself. Oh, their graces, their comforts, their enlargements, their meltings, and their warmings, are the things which most absorb them. Their thoughts and hearts are so exercised about these things that Christ Himself is much neglected by them.

The child is so absorbed with dolls and rattles, that the mother is not thought of. And such is the behavior of weak Christians towards Christ.

Those who are strong in grace are more taken up with Christ Himself, than they are with His love-tokens. They bless Christ indeed for every grain of grace but Christ Himself is more to them than all these. Christ is the most sparkling diamond in the ring of glory!