The true convert – Thomas Brooks

The true convert prizes Christ above all.

Ordinances are sweet but Christ is more sweet. Saints are precious but Christ is far more precious. Heaven is glorious but Christ is infinitely more glorious.

The first thing that I would ask, if I might have it, says the believer is Christ. And the next thing that I would ask, if I might have it is more of Christ. And the last thing that I would ask, if I might have it is that I might be satiated and filled with the fullness of Christ.

Let the ambitious man take the honors of the world my desire is to have Christ. Let the voluptuous man swim in all the pleasures of the world my desire is to have Christ. And let the covetous man tumble up and down in all the gold and silver of the world my desire is to have Christ and it shall be enough to my soul.