The Lord in his mercy will bruise us will whatever afflictions are necessary until we see our only hope is in Christ.
Quoting Richard Sibbes:
"This bruising is required before conversion that so the Spirit may make way for himself into the heart by levelling all proud, high thoughts, and that we may understand ourselves to be what indeed we are by nature. We love to wander from ourselves and to be strangers at home, till God bruises us by one cross or other, and then we 'begin to think', and come home to ourselves with the prodigal...this bruising makes us set a high price upon Christ. Then the gospel becomes the gospel indeed; then the fig-leaves of morality will do us no good."
Where is your confidence for the covering of your soul? Just fig leaves...or just Jesus?
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