Still mulling over yesterday’s sermon on the privilege of ministering the Word of God to people’s lives. This benediction by Jeremy Taylor was one I intended to include, but simply overlooked in my notes. He is right about the importance of encouragement and what it looks like when he says,
Relieve and comfort all the persecuted and afflicted; speak peace to troubled consciences; strengthen the weak, confirm the strong; instruct the ignorant; deliver the oppressed from him that spoileth him, and relieve the needy that hath no helper; and bring us all by the waters of comfort, and in the ways of righteousness, to the kingdom of rest and glory, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
(HT: CQOD)
Words of Grace 