On
one of his seven trips from Britain to America, George Whitefield was
battling depression and feelings of failure and was stabilized
finally only with meditation on God's love in Jesus Christ:
Nothing
could possibly support my soul under the many agonies which oppressed
me when on board, but a consideration of the freeness, eternity and
unchangeableness of God's love to me.
I need not fear the
sight of sin when I have a perfect, everlasting righteousness wrought
out for me by . . . Jesus Christ. The riches of His free grace cause
me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one. . .
.
May he enlighten me more and more to know and feel the
mystery of his electing, soul-transforming love. Nothing like that,
to support us under present and all the various future trials. . . .
But the Lord has apprehended us and will not let us go. Men and
devils may do their worst; our Jesus will allow nothing to pluck us
out of His Almighty hands.
--quoted
in Arnold Dallimore, George Whitefield: The Life and Times of the Great EVangelist of the 18th Century Revival (2
vols; Banner of Truth, 1970, 1980), 1:407
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