samuel rutherford
got a book at the Shepherd's Conference by Samuel Rutherford called "The Loveliness of Christ" It's basically just a collection of quotes from him that i guess people collected from letters he had written. this one stuck out to me a few weeks ago and i've been reading it almost every day since:
O wretched idol, myself! when shall I see thee wholly decourted, and Christ wholly put in thy room? O, if Christ, Christ, had the full place and room of myself, that all my aims, purposes, thoughts, and desires, would coast and land upon Christ, and not upon myself! And yet, howbeit we cannot attain to this denial of me and mine that we can say I am not myself, myself is not myself, mine own is no longer mine own; yet our aiming at this in all we do shall be accepted; for, alas, I think I shall die but minting and aiming to be a Christian.
posted by Elias at 21:09
5 Comments:
food for thought indeed....
i think michelle's right. i was going to say, i need to chew on it for awhile!
it is definitely one to be read over and over!
and, thanks to dictionary.com, we have an exact definition of "howbeit"!
ummm... I kinda get it. Wait a minute I had it. Oh wait...here it is again.
found it, noah?
it reads easier if you replace "howbeit" with "be that as it may" (which is completely legal according to dictionary.com).
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