glorycloud's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christ alone satisfies It is 2:32 PM Thursday afternoon in Western Michigan. It is a 71 degrees and partly sunny this afternoon. It is not hot or humid. Due to the cooler weather I mowed our front and back yard late this morning. I got up this morning around 7 o'clock AM. I had been awake since 4:50 AM, but stayed in bed as long as I could. I got up and came upstairs to find Carol getting ready for the day. I spent the morning struggling to wake up, writing in my paper diary and reading from a book titled, 'The Happiness of Enjoying And Making A True And Speedy Use of Christ' by Alexander Grosse. I finished read this morning from a book titled, 'Christian Faith & The Theological Life' by Romanus Cessario, O.P.. I have not really gotten into anything this afternoon. I am recovering from yard work right now. Last night I read late into the night, 'Zuckerman Unbound' a novel by Philip Roth/I am almost finished reading this novella by Roth. I got out to read this afternoon a book titled, 'Bard Kinetic' poetry/autobiography by Anne Waldman. I suppose I will close to drift. I will close with a quote from Alexander Grosse's book 'A True And Speedy Use of Christ'. "The life of man without faith in Christ is as no life, but a very death. Man is dangerously diseased; no balm can heal him, and no physician can cure him. The skill and labor of all physicians for the diseased woman in the gospel were fruitless, until she came to Christ Jesus (Mark 5). The pool of Bethesda cured no man unless the angel moved it. The ordinance of God cures not, unless Christ moves in it and works together with it. He alone is the Sun of Righteousness that has healing in His wings, curing the wounds which are given by sin and Satan. Man is possessed by an unclean spirit, and none but Christ can eject him. The soul of man is an unclean dwelling until Christ takes possession within him. He rebukes the Devil and causes him to depart who the disciples cannot cast out (Matt. 17:19, 21). David overthrew Goliath with whom no Israelite dared to enter combat (1 Samuel 17). Christ overthrows the Devil who, without the power of Christ, is invincible. Man of himself can no more overcome him and no more deliver himself from him than the sheep under David's custody was able to deliver itself from the bear and the lion. Man is blind, in darkness and under the shadow of death-and no sun but Christ can enlightened him. Man is naked, and no garment but Christ can clothe and cover him. All other garments are but rotten rags and fading leaves, like Adam's fig leaves, poor and shoddy covering. Man is poor, and no treasure but Christ can enrich him; all is but dung and dross besides Christ. Man is indebted, and none but Christ can make satisfaction for him. A thousand rams and ten thousand rivers of oil (Micah 6)-nay. even ten thousand worlds-if man were lord and owner of them. these were insufficient price for the least sin of man. None but Christ, a price infinite and invaluable, is the price of man's redemption. Man is empty, and none but Christ can fill him. The world is a feast; the more man feeds upon it, the more his hunger is increased. Like the man who has dropsy, the more he drinks the more he thirsts. Christ alone satisfies; He gives water so that whosoever drinks will thirst no more (John 4:14)" pg. 60,61 'A True And Speedy Use of Christ' 3:05 p.m. - 2023-09-07 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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