My quote for the blog today comes not from John Owen, or Thomas Watson, not from Charles Spurgeon or David Wells.
It is actually from someone I am closer to, someone I love much more. I won’t tell you her name (so as not to embarrass her) but she is one of our senior ladies here at RBC. By senior I don’t just mean 50+. This dear sister is well north of seventy.
She is a joy be with. I love talking with her as she is filled full of Godly wisdom. She wrote me a letter last week. I found her letter to be instructive, encouraging and corrective all at the same time. Here is part of it.
“Too often we are trying to live the Christian life in our own strength, instead of trusting the Holy Spirit to live the indwelling life of Jesus through us. The more I read His Word, I see the role of the Holy Spirit in sanctification (now) and glorification (ultimately).”
She wrote too about living the Christian life in the power of God’s Spirit and the choices we all make.
“Either I surrender to the Holy Spirit (because He illuminates my understanding of God’s Word and applies the Truth of God’s Word to my heart) and let Him work (obedience), or I quench the Holy Spirit (disobedience).”
Her letter to me was filled with Scripture and meant so much to me personally. I hope that each of you have wise friends, like this dear grandmother in the Lord that I have, who can speak to you words of gold.