Leaving Beyond – Grounded In Scripture

Written by: April J. Buchanan

“Our hope is not in our ability to persuade, but in the power of God to regenerate.” ~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones

If I look to my family for the hope of their salvation, I will grieve and torment my own soul day and night.

If I look to myself—my intellect, my wisdom, my cunning—in order to find some way to win them to Christ, I show myself to be opposed to the Lord I claim to belong, love, and trust.

But if I look to Christ, my heart may not be unburdened of desire, yet I have hope—hope held in tension with sorrow—for what remains in them and what is ahead of them lest they repent.

Yet looking unto Christ, I have hope: hope for my own soul and hope that He alone is able to save them.

When my words seem wasted upon them and they cast them aside, my Lord hears me and is never troubled by my desperate cry. I seek not to manipulate the will of perfection, but I pray to the God of salvation, that He may take out their hearts of stone, change their will, and grant them faith and repentance.

Late Evening Meditations.

Grace and Peace, y’all
Soli Deo Gloria