Don’t be discouraged!

(Again drinking from the wellspring of Puritan Richard Sibbes’ The Bruised Reed …)

“Let us not therefore be discouraged at the small beginnings of grace, but look on ourselves as elected to be ‘holy and without blame’ (Ephesians 1:4) …

The  pupil of the eye is very little, yet sees a great part of the heaven at once. A pearl, though little, yet is of much esteem. Nothing in the world is of so good use as the least grain of grace.”