October 28 – “The soul can submit to God at the time when it can send itself under the power and authority and sovereignty and dominion that God has over it.”

“Contentment is freely submitting to and taking pleasure in God’s disposal. Submitting to God’s disposal-What is that? The word submit signifies nothing else but ‘to send under’. Thus in one who is discontented the heart will be unruly, and would even get above God so far as discontent prevails. But now comes the grace of [...]

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October 23 – “Christ values us by what we shall be, and by what we are elected unto.”

“Let us not therefore be discouraged at the small beginnings of grace, but look on ourselves as elected to be `holy and without blame’ (Eph. 1:4). Let us look on our imperfect beginning only to enforce further striving to perfection, and to keep us in a low opinion of ourselves. Otherwise, in case of discouragement, [...]

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October 20 – “Therefore desire God that he would bring a clear and a strong light into all the corners of our souls, and accompany it with a spirit of power to lay our hearts low.”

“But how shall we come to this state of mind? Answer: First, we must conceive of bruising either as a state into which God brings us, or as a duty to be performed by us. Both are here meant. We must join with God in bruising ourselves. When he humbles us, let us humble ourselves, [...]

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October 11 – “The bruised reed is a man that for the most part is in some misery, as those were that came to Christ for help, and by misery he is brought to see sin as the cause of it, for, whatever pretences sin makes, they come to an end when we are bruised and broken.”

“The bruised reed is a man that for the most part is in some misery, as those were that came to Christ for help, and by misery he is brought to see sin as the cause of it, for, whatever pretences sin makes, they come to an end when we are bruised and broken. He [...]

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October 9 – “To yield to the temptation, is as unreasonable as for a child to dispute away his relation to his father, because he is not of the same stature with his elder brethren.”

“Case 6. ‘I see myself fall so far short of the saints mentioned in the Scriptures, and of several excellent people of my own acquaintance, that, when I look on them, I can hardly look on myself as one of the same family with them.’ Answer. It is, indeed, matter of humiliation, that we do [...]

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September 27 – “Let us hence learn that God cannot be really glorified, except when men wholly empty themselves.”

“But this sin, as I have already said, belongs to all the ungodly; for where God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride, until God thoroughly cleanse them. It is then necessary that God should empty us by his special grace, that we may not be filled [...]

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September 10 – “God has two strings to his bow; if your hearts will not lie humble and low under the sense of sin and misery, he will make them lie low under the lack of some desired mercy (assurance).”

“The sixth reason why God denies assurance to his dearest ones, at least for a time, is, that they be kept humble and low in their own eyes; as the enjoyment of mercy (assurance) gladdens us—so the lack of mercy (assurance) humbles us…Surely, it is better to lack any temporal mercy—than a humble heart; it [...]

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August 22 – “It is violence to corrupt nature for a man to be holy, to lie down under Christ’s feet…”

“Dear Sir, I always saw nature mighty, lofty, heady and strong in you; and that it was more for you to be mortified and dead to the world than for another common man. You will take a low ebb, and a deep cut, and long lance, to go to the bottom of your wounds in [...]

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