Follow The Lamb

I will be posting sections of the helpful little work Follow The Lamb by Horatius Bonar in the coming weeks. I hesitate to do so because everyone is so very busy these days, including myself. But how often do we forego spiritual strengthening in favor of distraction? Pause for a few minutes and consider what this dear pastor has to say. Just a few minutes with much to be gained. Don’t waste the opportunity.

Blinded By The Burden We Carry Yet Refuse To See

If sin is such a surface thing, a trifle, as men deem it, what is the significance of this long sad story? Do earth’s ten thousand graveyards, where human love lies buried, tell no darker tale? Do the millions upon millions of broken hearts and heavy eyes say that sin is but a trifle? Does the moaning of the hospital or the carnage of the battlefield, the blood-stained sword, and the death-dealing artillery, proclaim that sin is a mere casualty, and the human heart the seat of goodness after all?