March 12, 2010
Spies and Messengers of Hope
Thoughts are the spies and messengers of hope; it sends them into the promised land to bring the soul tidings from thence… By
this means we preoccupy and forestall the contentment of what we expect and feast the soul with images and suppositions of what is to come, as if it were already present.. . If we did look upon ourselves as "heirs of the kingdom of heaven" and "co-heirs with Christ" we would think of that happy estate more than we do, and set us in the midst of the glory of the world to come, as if we did see Christ upon his throne, and Paul with his crown of righteousness, and all the blessed in Abraham's bosom.
—Thomas Manton "The Epistle of Jude"
Filed under A Puritan at Heart by on Mar 12th, 2010. 
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