Quote: Trials For Christ; A Blessed Exchange
"But in truth, [trials are] for our salvation - to show ourselves to ourselves, to bring us to forsake ourselves, and to give us Christ, instead of ourselves. Oh what a blessed exchange!...
There can be no drinking of the living waters while we have a price in our hand, be it much or little; no buying the gospel wine and milk while we have any money; no triumphing in "the Lord our righteousness" while we are hunting about for shreds of our own and sewing them together. All this is Christ-rejecting and God-dishonouring.
Therefore be not cast down at the Lord's ways towards you, for if we are anything or have anything, Jesus cannot be everything; and if He be not everything, He is nothing. He must be all, for holiness and happiness, for justification and sanctification, for acceptable appearing before God and suitable walking before men, for holy living and happy dying."
Ruth Bryan
The Marvelous Riches of Savoring Christ: The Letters of Ruth Bryan
p. 4
