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"Blessed exchange!"

posted by luke on Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 4:54 PM

"This is the marriage covenant, "Thou shalt be for me, and not for another: so will I be for thee." hos. 3:3. Ah, what a life is the life of a Christian; Christ all for you, and you all for him. Blessed exchange! "Soul," saith Christ, "all I have is thine." "Lord," saith the soul, "and all I have is thine." "Soul," saith Christ, "my person is wonderful, but what I am, I am for thee: my life was spent in labor and travail, but it was for thee." "And, Lord," saith the believer, "my person is vile, and my soul, with all and every faculty; my body, and every member of it; my gifts, time, and all my talents, are thine.""

-John Flavel, The Fountain of Life, 80-81.