• “Let us ask that the Lord Jesus would so perfectly tune our spirits to the keynote of His exceeding great love, that all our unconscious influence may breathe only of that love, and help all with whom we come in contact to obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.” – Frances Ridley Havergal

TEARFULNESS.

CVL 

Do not be afraid ; you insult God by mistrusting His 
Goodness ; He knows better than you what you want 
and are able to bear ; He will never try you beyond your 
strength. So I repeat it ; fear nothing, O you of little 
faith ! The experience of your own weakness shows 
you how little you can reckon on yourself or your best 
resolutions. Sometimes one might suppose, to see the 
warmth of one's feelings, that nothing could throw one 
back, and .then, after having exclaimed, like S. Peter, 
" Though I should die with Thee, yet will I not deny 
Thee ! " one ends like him by being frightened at a 
servant maid, and denying our Lord ! Weak indeed we 
are ! but while such weakness is deplorable, the realisa- 
tion thereof is most useful if it strips us of all self- 
reliance. A weakness which we know and which 
humbles us is worth more than the most angelic good- 
ness complacently self-appropriated ! So be weak and 
depressed if God permits it; but at all events be humble, 
frank, and docile in your depression. Some day you 
will laugh at all your present fears, and will thank God 
for all that I say so harshly to drive you out of your 
timid prudence.

 

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  • “My soul remained in a kind of heavenly elysium. So far as I am capable of making a comparison, I think that what I felt each minute, during the continuance of the whole time, was worth more than all the outward comfort and pleasure, which I had enjoyed in my whole life put together. It was a pure delight, which fed and satisfied the soul. It was peasure, without the least sting, or any interruption. It was a sweetness, which my soul was lost in. It seemed to be all that my feeble frame could sustain, of that fulness of joy, which is felt by those, who behold the face of Christ, and share his love in the heavenly world.” – Sarah Edwards, wife of Jonathan Edwards

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[Jesus a Third Time Predicts His Death and Resurrection] Now Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples aside on the road and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death, and deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify. And the third day He will rise again.” — Matthew 20: 17-19 (NKJV)

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