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Stop the Sun in its Course

Here is a great quote hubby shared with me the other day from a book he is currently reading. I wanted to share it with you.

“Whereas the expression (“keep thy heart”) seems to put it upon us as our work, yet it does not imply a sufficiency or ability in us to do it. We are as able to stop the sun in its course or make the rivers run backward as by our own skill and power to rule and order our hearts. We may as well be our own saviors as our own keepers. Yet Solomon speaks properly enough when he says, “keep thy heart,” because the duty is ours though the power is God’s. A natural man has no power. A gracious man has some, though not sufficient, and that power he has depends upon the exciting and assisting strength of Christ.” John Flavel, Keeping the Heart, 1667.