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Private Thoughts About Submission (1)

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Private Thoughts About Submission (1)

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Submission to the will of Cod, with experience of His support in pain, sickness, affliction, is a more joyous and happy state than any degree of health or worldly prosperity.

I see Cod in everything; in pain I feel Him; and know He is come near to me upon some gracious design. I never have so lively a sense of the being, presence, and goodness of God, as in pain, sickness, and suffering it puts me upon thinking, and I cannot avoid coming to this conclusion, that it is ordained by His immediate will, and that He does it in mercy.

Instead of repining at bodily disorders, think how many have much greater, and how to be thankful both for those you have and have not.

If I am afflicted, sick, weak, or in pain, let me not comfort myself chiefly with thinking that it will quickly be over, or that I shall soon be well, but rather with thinking and knowing that it is the appointment of divine wisdom; for reasons of infinite concernment to myself, and for the end which God has chiefly in view for His people in all His inflictions, namely, the glory of His name in their spiritual health and recovery: and a blessed support it will be, to know and feel that I do not so much desire ease and deliverance from present trouble, as grace and strength to undergo more and greater, and even death itself, quietly, obediently, in the spirit of faith, and with full acceptance of the will of God.

In pain, sickness, trouble, methinks I hear God saying, ‘Take this medicine, exactly suited to the case, prepared and weighed by My own hands, and consisting of the choicest drugs which heaven affords.”


If any thing, though ever so dear is taken from me by the order of providence, I have no longer any interest in it, or business with it. The cloud is taken up (Num. 9:17) and my station is fixed for some other place. God is now in the absence and privation of it, and if ever I find Him it must be there.


I believe no man is obliged to sell all he has because Christ gave such a command to one person, any more than he is obliged to sacrifice his son because God commanded Abraham to do so; and yet, doubtless,these were written for our instruction, that we might be ready always to obey the severest calls of providence — a matter of no small difficulty, and which we infinitely deceive ourselves and others in. It is a common thing for people to say, “God’s will be done,” without one grain of sincerity or true resignation.

The world is so constituted that obedience to the commands of God is impossible, without taking up the cross daily: but then, they who are unwilling to take up the cross, explain away all the trying commands of the gospel, and that of the cross in the first place.

It is our duty to bless God for the measure of grace we have, and to rest satisfied with His appointment in spirituals as well as temporals. Every degree of real grace is His gift, and the work of the Spirit, who divideth to every man severally as He will. To be thankful for lower degrees of grace, notwithstanding the most ardent desires and longings after the highest, is perhaps the truest as well as most difficult kind of humility and resignation (Rom. 14).

Rev. Thomas Adam (1701-1784) was a godly divine and student of John Newton, who pastored a congregation in Lincolnshire for 58 years. Like lohn Newton, he remained within the Anglican Church all his life.

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Bekijk de hele uitgave van zaterdag 1 augustus 1987

The Banner of Truth | 28 Pagina's

Private Thoughts About Submission (1)

Bekijk de hele uitgave van zaterdag 1 augustus 1987

The Banner of Truth | 28 Pagina's