Grace is very little at first and very glorious later. So Christ will fan into flame a tiny smouldering flax into a blazing light. Things of greatest perfection are a long time growing, like an acorn forming a great oak.
Don’t despise small begininings therefore. Grace though little in quantity is much in vigour and worth. It is Christ that raises the worth of little and mean places. Just as he did with Bethlehem. It was nothing but he was born there and became great.
Grace is also mingled with corruption. So Moses at the Red Sea was in a blind panic but he offered up a great prayer. ‘Broken hearts can yield but broken prayers.’ p.18 / 19 very good on this mixture in us.
It keeps us humble, stops us becoming proud and secure, forces us to depend on justification not sanctification.
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