Monday, October 31, 2016

J.C. Ryle on the True Christian's Comfort

"Christ is . . . all in [the true Christian's] comfort in time present.  A saved soul has many sorrows.  He has a body like other men, weak and frail.  He has a heart like other men, and often a more sensitive one, too.  He has trials and losses to bear like others, and often more.  He has his share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments, crosses.  He has the world to oppose a place in life to fill blamelessly, unconverted relatives to bear with patiently, persecutions to endure and a death to die.

"And who is sufficient for these things?  What shall enable a believer to bear all this?  Nothing but the consolation there is in Christ (Phil. 2:1)" (Holiness, J.C. Ryle).
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