Samuel Rutherford, the writer of the Westminster Catechism, writes this about happiness, during his 2 year, unjustly given, time in prison:
“If God had told me some time ago that He was about to make me as happy as I could be in this world, and then had told me that He should begin by crippling me in all my limbs, and removing me from all me usual sources of enjoyment, I should have thought it a very strange mode of accomplishing His purpose. And yet, how is His wisdom manifest even in this! For if you should see a man shut up in a close room, idolizing a set of lamps, and rejoicing in their light, and you wished to make hum truly happy, you would begin by blowing out all his lamps; and then throw upon the shutters to let in the light of heaven.”
John Piper comments, “Oh, how I pray that when God, in his mercy, begins to blow out my lamps, I will not curse the wind.”
Well put, John.
Samuel Rutherford, the writer of the Westminster Catechism, writes this about happiness, during his 2 year, unjustly given, time in prison:“If God had told me some time ago that He was about to make me as happy as I could be in this world, and then had told me that He should begin by crippling me in all my limbs, and removing me from all me usual sources of enjoyment, I should have thought it a very strange mode of accomplishing His purpose. And yet, how is His wisdom manifest even in this! For if you should see a man shut up in a close room, idolizing a set of lamps, and rejoicing in their light, and you wished to make hum truly happy, you would begin by blowing out all his lamps; and then throw upon the shutters to let in the light of heaven.”John Piper comments, “Oh, how I pray that when God, in his mercy, begins to blow out my lamps, I will not curse the wind.”Well put, John.
