Leaving God with Them

December 29, 2006

Joe,

Here’s the quote I was mentioning at breakfast from Jonathan Edwards about faithful ministers of the gospel.  I think it actually fits nicely with what I wrote yesterday from 2 Corinthians 2 about successful ministry:

“Useful men are some of the greatest blessings of a people. To have many such is more for a people’s happiness than almost anything, unless it be God’s own gracious, spiritual presence amongst them: they are precious gifts of heaven…Particularly, I would beseech and exhort those aged ones that yet remain, while they do live with us, to let us have much of their prayers, that when they leave the younger generations, they may leave God with them.”

May we be people who strive to “leave God” with those to whom we minister.  Too many in this day and age would rather be popular and have big crowds than actually leave the surpassing greatness of Jesus Christ with their disciples.  Let us never be more enamored with popularity than with manifesting the aroma of Christ in every place,

Larry

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