Having nothing, yet possessing everything – 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;

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

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

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

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

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