Mending up holes and learning lessons.

"I must put down a dear little story told me by my friend this morning. Her small niece, aged somewhere between three and four, was heard telling the parable of the lost sheep to a cousin a year or two older. The finale was, "So the Shepherd put back the lamb into the fold, and then he mended up the hole where it had got out."
All of sanctification as well as salvation lay in the wisdom of those child-lips" (Ezekiel 34:15-16)


"Oh the desert is lovely in it's restfulness. The great brooding stillness over and through everything is so full of God. One does not wonder that He used to take His people in to the wilderness to teach them." (Mark 6:31)

Lilias Trotter from "A Blossom in the Desert"

Thomas Brooks and the right focus.

Focussing on the Right Thing:-





"The first device that Satan has to keep souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition, and so making their life a hell, is by causing them to be still poring and musing upon sin, to mind their sins more than their Savior; yes, so to mind their sins as to forget, yes, to neglect their Savior, that, as the Psalmist speaks, 'The Lord is not in all their thoughts' (Psalm 10:4). Their eyes are so fixed upon their disease, that they cannot see the remedy, though it be near; and they do so muse upon their debts, that they have neither mind nor heart to think of their Surety. A Christian should wear Christ in his bosom as a flower of delight, for he is a whole paradise of delight. He who minds not Christ more than his sin, can never be thankful and fruitful as he should."
- Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices