So i am reading this book, and it has really been eye opening. Written in the mid 1600's I thought it would be another cool if I read book. But what I didn't realize is I would be taking notes and highlighting every other page.
This is what I read last night:
"Satan's devices to keep Saints in a sad, doubting, questioning and uncomfortable condition
1- By causing saints to remember their sins more than their Savior, yes even forget and neglect their Savior: for remedies, consider that
A) though Jesus Christ has not freed believers form sin's presence, He has freed them from its damnatory power."
As I was reading this I forgot for a moment it was written over 350 years ago. This could very easily have been a sermon you heard on any given Sunday. How often do we focus on the things we have done wrong? How often do we think the things we have done wrong define us. As believers in Christ it is him who defines us. But so often we never get to that point. We are so self consumed that we never ever make it past the things we have done wrong to the things that Christ has planned for us. The one comforting thing is, this book has shown me, not much has changed. I struggle with the same thing that people 350+ years ago struggled with. There are no new problems, just the same problems in nice new shiny packages.
