An Easter Thought

Greetings Friend.

May you find this Easter to contain a time when you can put away all the busy-ness that will distract you from being alone with Christ, and may you desire this to the point of actually securing such a time. Christ gave His life for you to be with Him, His Father and the Spirit. Honor that by giving some of yours to be with Them. Let your faith, whatever measure you have, lead you to spend time with God.

“Even Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. This is the noble advantage of faith; it can look on the means and end together. This is the great reason of our impatience, and censuring of God, because we gaze on the evil itself, but fix not our thoughts on what is beyond it. They that saw Christ only on the cross, or in the grave, do shake their heads, and think him lost; but God saw him dying, buried, rising, glorified, and all this at one view. Faith will in this imitate God, so far as it hath the glass of a promise to help it. . . Could we but clearly see heaven, as the end of all God’s dealings with us, surely none of his dealings could be grievous.”

Richard Baxter, The Saints Everlasting Rest.

Carl