{Saturday with Susan} to be a happy Christian
Today’s excerpt from A Life Hid with Christ in God is from a letter Susan wrote to her sister in 1833.
“…if you would be a happy Christian, if you would enjoy that ‘peace that passeth understanding,’ you must never rest satisfied until ‘every thought is brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.’ This is the rule I always keep before me. I have determined that I will never cease this spiritual warfare while this object is unattained —until my every thought, word and deed is consecrated to the service of God. Oh! how far distant am I from the ‘mark,’ towards which I trust we shall ever ‘press with vigor on!’ In Heaven, alone, we shall be permitted to rest. There will be no temptation there; there we shall see our Heavenly Father’s face, and ‘never, never sin.’ Here we must watch, and pray, and labor; there we shall praise forever and forever.
“We know not, my dear sister, the circumstances which await us in this life; we may be subjected to many trials, but let us pray that ‘in all time of our tribulation, in all time of our prosperity, in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment,’ our Saviour may be the strength of our hearts, the rock of our refuge. You must remember me in your daily petitions. Morning, noon and night I ask our Father who is in Heaven to bless and keep my darling sister.”
(page 57)
Exactly what I needed to read. Thank you. As I’m studying Ephesians 6 – The armor of GOD. It is a neverending battlefield in my mind to keep in the obedience of God. Hearing this “me too” that happened in 1833 brings comfort. This book is so good.