Staying on the right side of Christ in temptation
I thank you for your letter. I cannot but show you that as I never expected anything from Christ but much good and kindness, so he hath made me to find it in the house of my pilgrimage. And believe me brother, I give it to you under mine own hand-writ, that whoso looketh to the white side of Christ’s cross, and can take it up handsomely with faith and courage, shall find it such a burden as sails are to ships or wings to a bird. I find that my Lord hath over-gilded that black tree, and hath perfumed it, and oiled it with joy and consolation. Like a fool, once I would chide and plead with Christ and slander him to others, of unkindness. But I trust in God not o call his glooms unkind again; for he hath taken from me sackcloth; and I verily cannot tell you what a poor Joseph and prisoner doth now think of kind Christ.I will chide no more, providing he will quit me all bygones; for I am poor, I am taught in this ill weather to go to the lee-side of Christ, and to put in between me and the storm; and (I thank God) I will on the sunny side of the brae. I write it that ye may speak on my behalf the praises of my Lord to others, that my bonds may preach. O, if all Scotland knew the feats and love-blinks and visits that the prelates have sent unto me, I will verily give my Lord Jesus a free discharge of all that I, like a fool, laid to his charge and beg him pardon, to the mends. God grant that in my temptations I will come not on his wrong side again and never again fall a raving against my physician in my fever.[Samuel Rutherford]
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Nothing much to tell. I’m walking a single solitary pilgrims walk, in England, that is not an easy one. I am a Calvinistic Covenanter Christian, My Autonomic Nervous system is failing slowly, which has led to severe disability, with an ultra rare disease than medics don’t even understand, often misdiagnose.and will no doubt kill me at some point. But, I trust the Lord to get me where I’m going. All glory to HIM.
The symptomology listed on the link, most porphyrics will only have most of those symptoms if in an acute attack. A few of us, with the ongoing, smouldering symptoms, that never go away, have most if not all of the symptom list, even when not in an acute attack, and are persistent and constant. Anyone who has ever been in the psychiactric system, diagnosed as this or that, even if physically well, should consider this illness could be responsible. King George III, the most famous porphyric, his sole symptom was “insanity.” Its so rare in part, because it’s massively under-diagnosed. But in making this illness known, when it struck me physically a few years ago, God vindicated me from every mis-diagnoses and bersmirchment upon me medically that has ever been made, and has made them all null and void.
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