Sunday, December 14

The measure of our growth and decay

If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of Christ’s Kingdom, and of His love.

— John Owen, quoted by I. D. E. Thomas in
A Puritan Golden Treasury
(Carlisle, Pa.: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1989), 184