Quotes to Note 6: Following Christ As a Helpless Child

The last several months, I’ve been enjoying Tabletalk, a monthly devotional magazine from R.C. Sproul’s Ligonier Ministries. There’s a daily reading relevant to a specific passage, a bible reading plan, and several articles related to a specific theme for the month.

This month, the theme is resolutions. And Stephen Nichols, the author of Jonathan Edwards: A Guided Tour of His Life and Thought, contributed an article on Jonathan Edwards’ famous resolutions. In that article he mentioned a letter with 19 points that Edwards addressed to a teenager who had asked for advice on how to live the Christian life. From that letter comes the quote for today’s quote to note. I hope it blesses you as it did me.

In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ’s hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hand and side.

May God grant that we all have such a humble trust in Christ this year, and may we draw closer to our Savior.