Thanks for reminding me of what bringing truth to bear in your own life looks like during times of sickness. I’ve been ill since Wednesday.

I just finished reading CJ’s book on Humility, and his chapter on Trials and Suffering (though my sickness can’t even be compared to many people’s trials and what they suffer) reminded and convicted me afresh of my own proud heart so much wanting relief more than God Himself, which is directly opposite to the psalmist’s point in Psalm 130Psalm 130
[130:1]Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD!
[2]O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleas for mercy!
[3]If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
[4]But with you there is forgiveness,
that you may be feared.
[5]I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
and in his word I hope;
[6]my soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen for the morning,
more than watchmen for the morning.
[7]O Israel, hope in the LORD!
For with the LORD there is steadfast love,
and with him is plentiful redemption.
[8]And he will redeem Israel
from all his iniquities.

. Oh, how many times our heart wanders, but O :)! how many times He not only sustains, but also draws us back to Himself and forgives us!!! What a Savior! Blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin - Rom 4:8Romans 4:8
[8]blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not
count his sin."

Thanks for writing so often and so well in these blogs. Keep up the good labor! ~J