Inner Turmoil Over Your Feeling of Spiritual Barrenness.

The Narrated Puritan

Oftentimes holiness in the heart is more known by the opposition that is made there to it, than by its own prevalent working. The Spirit's operation is known by the flesh's opposition. We find a man's strength by the burdens he carries, and not the pace that he goes. 'O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?' is a better evidence of grace and holiness than 'God, I thank you I am not as other men.' a heart pressed, grieved, burdened, not by the guilt of sin only,