I want to quote a little from Jonathan Edwards this afternoon. I pray I can be the “godly man” he describes:
The godly man not only loves that God should reign over others, but that he should reign over him too, and that with an uncontrollable power. He is heartily willing that God should be a sovereign King over him. He had rather be ruled by God and have God for his King, that be in all respects at his own disposal. We are not our own; we “are bought with a price” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). And the believer had rather have it so than otherwise; he had rather be God’s than his own. He had rather that God should have an entire right to him, body and soul, than have a right to himself. He loves to have God for a lawgiver, had rather that God should give him laws than not. He loves to have God dispose of him in his providence. He can delight in thinking that he is in the hands of God; that is the language of his soul, which proceeds from the soul with delight and pleasure: “Lord, I am in thy hands; deal with me as seemeth thee good.”

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