I was reading David Brainerd’s Life and Diary while waiting for my turn in a medical appointment. The following paragraph caught my eye and my soul was both challenged and refreshed by it. The context was his conversion and this happened after a long period of struggling with gospel-issues e.g. trusting in spiritual duties for salvation, lack of faith etc in an otherwise appararently pious life so far.
At this time, the way of salvation opened to me with such infinite wisdom, suitableness, and excellency, that I wondered I shouldever think of any other way of salvation; that I wondered I should ever think of any other way of salvation; was amazed that I had not dropped my own contrivances, and complied with this lovely, blessed and excellent way before. If I could have been saved by my own duties, or any other way that I had formerly contrived, my whole soul would now have refused it. I wondered that all the world did not se and comply with this way of salvation, entirely by the righteousness of Christ. (emphasis mine)
May it bless your heart, as it had mine.
