Tuesday, April 25, 2006
An ark for all God's Noahs by Thomas Brooks
Thirdly, If God be most precious to you, then you will part with anything for God, then you will let go anything, that may hold your God, and enjoy your God, Philip. 3:7,8, Matt. 13:46; then your Isaac shall be made a sacrifice, if God will have it so, Gen. 22; and your Benjamin shall be sent into Egypt, if God will have it so, Gen. 43; then your Jonah will be cast overboard, if God will have it so, Jonah 1; then out goes the right eye, and off goes the right hand, upon divine command; then you will never cry out, Oh! this mercy is too near to me to part with for God, and that confort is too dear to me to part with for God, &c Oh no; but then you will say, as the king of Sodom said to Abraham, 'Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself' Gen 14:21. So you will say 'Give us God, oh give us God, and let who will take the goods, let who will take the honours, and the profits, and the pleasures of this world; it is enough tht Joseph is alive; it is enough if we may but enjoy our God. A prince will part anything rather than he will part with his crown-jewels; and so will a Christian rather part with anything, than upon choice, to part with his God, whom he values above all the crown-jewels in the world. p 99
This book by Thomas Brooks is in book 2 of his complete works.
He brings out good points in this sample above. The christian will give up whatever gets between him and God. The christian knows God in more important than all the money and other things the world can offer.
This book by Thomas Brooks is in book 2 of his complete works.
He brings out good points in this sample above. The christian will give up whatever gets between him and God. The christian knows God in more important than all the money and other things the world can offer.
