a bruised reed he will not break,
and a smoldering wick he will not quench,
Over a year ago, when we were feeling very bruised by circumstances outside of our control, various losses, inexplicable physical symptoms, and complete uncertainty about the future, God's good providence took us to a certain church on a certain Sunday.
In our months of looking for a new church home, we rarely visited a Sunday School class, but on this
Almost before we were home, Jim had downloaded the book from Amazon, and that set the tone for months and months of deep ministry by the Holy Spirit through Richard Sibbes.
An online review I found says:
Richard Sibbes writes and preaches as a man constrained and compelled by the love of Christ. He cannot know enough about Christ. For more than anything else, Christ defines his existence. And he has found Christ to be the source of everything good and needful. The Bruised Reed represents a distillation of this Christocentric world view, and in it Sibbes writes persuasively, with both tenderness and compelling urgency, betraying by his words an intimacy with the ways of God. He counsels as one who knows what it means to be broken and bruised and poor in spirit before God. His words carry with them the wisdom of one who has spent many hours at the feet of his master. He preaches as one whose sins have been forgiven, whose heart has been filled with Good News. And he speaks with the peace of one who knows what the final outcome of the battle will be.
Read the book online here for free. Follow along in a 9-part series here.
What books has God used to minister to you when you've passed through deep waters?
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