It’s been a while since I’ve posted any quotes. I have a flurry of reasons for this lapse, but I give you imaginative license to come up with your own.
The women at our church recently went through a book by the Puritan Thomas Watson called “The Art of Divine Contentment.” It took us 8 weeks to make it through and I collected an armful of quotes which I hope to plaster on the thick walls of my mind.
It will be hard for me to pick only a few to share here, but if I choose too many, you won’t read them all. Admit it! I’ll be subject to the dreaded “TLDR” label. You’re probably already hovering over the exit button. I’d better get down to business.
Divine contentment is a sweet temper of spirit, whereby a Christian carries himself in equal poise in every condition.
You could pick almost every word in that description and expand the definition of divine contentment to make a book. Oh wait, Thomas Watson already did that.
Murmuring is nothing else but the scum which boils off from a discontented heart.
Think about that vivid word picture the next time you are murmuring and complaining.
Oh, what a Sabbath is kept in a contented heart! What a heaven! …The soul that has gotten into the ark of contentment sits quietly and sails above all the waves of trouble. He can sing in this spiritual ark.
Get your hymnal out and plan a playlist to sing through when you are in the ark of contentment.
True faith will trust God where it cannot trace Him, and will venture upon God’s bond, though it has nothing in view.
Oh yes! When you cannot see God’s hand at work, that is the most critical time to trust His sovereign love and care over you.
Afflictions bring more of God’s immediate presence into the soul. When we are most assaulted, we shall be most assisted.
I love that quote so much.
I’ll leave it at that for this time. I suspect a Commonplace Quotes:Thomas Watson Edition Part 2 may happen at some point. Until then: be content.
I will be content to delete this in the morning.
