tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post5042678918157306909..comments2023-10-08T07:15:19.060-04:00Comments on One Day At A Time: The Prodigal ReturnsMaureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05716971493153383770noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post-36654387304807355462010-11-17T21:49:18.040-05:002010-11-17T21:49:18.040-05:00I’ve been following and enjoying your blog for a w...I’ve been following and enjoying your blog for a while now ("the upward call" since August)and would like to invite you to visit my blog and perhaps follow me back. Sorry I took so long for the invitation.<br />I have moved my following status over to this blog as the other seems to be inactive.Covnitkepr1https://www.blogger.com/profile/14155059748601952927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post-35232015627607636452010-11-11T13:49:02.820-05:002010-11-11T13:49:02.820-05:00“I can feelingly say, he hath proved himself stron...“I can feelingly say, he hath proved himself stronger than I and his goodness superior to all my unworthiness. He tells me (and enables me to believe it) that I am fair, and there is no spot in me. Though an enemy, he calls me his friend; though a traitor, a child; though a beggared prodigal, he clothes me with the best robe and has put a ring of endless love and mercy on my hand. And though I am sorely distressed by spiritual and internal foes, afflicted, tormented and bowed down almost to death with the sense of my own present barrenness, ingratitude and proneness to evil, he secretly shows me his bleeding wounds and softly and powerfully whispers to my soul, ‘I am thy great salvation.’ His free distinguishing grace is the bottom on which is fixed the rest of my poor weary tempted soul. On this I ground my hope, often times when unsupported by any other evidence, save only the Spirit of adoption received from him. When my dry and empty barren soul is parched with thirst, he kindly bids me come to him and drink my fill at the fountainhead. In a word, he empowers me to say with experiential evidence, ‘Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.’ Amen and amen.”<br /><br />Joseph Hart (1712-1768), quoted in Peter C. Rae, “Joseph Hart and His Hymns,” Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology 6 (1988): 22-23.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post-59405664883744338892010-10-19T20:35:30.126-04:002010-10-19T20:35:30.126-04:00i can relate to anonymous, having "older brot...i can relate to anonymous, having "older brother syndrome" myself.<br />Well written dear sister,<br /><br />DebAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post-67910683100240029592010-10-19T15:24:25.037-04:002010-10-19T15:24:25.037-04:00Anon, not strange, but sad perhaps. If only that &...Anon, not strange, but sad perhaps. If only that "laid low" attitude would continue, but pride is a monster that will continue to raise it's ugly head. Thank God for His ongoing, loving chastisement.Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05716971493153383770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post-58170855201412309682010-10-19T11:48:28.019-04:002010-10-19T11:48:28.019-04:00Isn't it strange that somehow, so often, the p...Isn't it strange that somehow, so often, the prodigal turns into the elder brother once he settles back into his father's house.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com