| | I just finished reading Arthur Pink's The Seven Sayings of Our Savior On The Cross. He is definitely one of my new favorite authors. This book is such an expositional gem, of just seven select utterances of Christ as quoted from the Gospels. I was shocked, all the way through the book, at how innumerable the facets of Christ's time on the cross are. It's clear that Pink's soul found its truest communion with the Father only through meditations on the Gospel, and we reap the benefits through this brief but dense masterpiece. My second impression is that Pink's own meditations on the Gospel demanded from him an evangelistic ministry, always. This book could have easily been written for the Church of believers, to heighten their love for their Savior, (and I believe this was one of Pink's goals), but he refused to be content there and insisted in explicitly addressing the unbelieving reader in every one of his chapters, calling them to an undiluted faith in Christ.
"'Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit'....will be our cry...and when we go hence, our expectation and earnest desires are to be with Him. We have cast many a longing look heavenward, but when the soul of the saved near the parting of ways, then it throws itself into the arms of love, just as a river after many turnings and windings pours itself into the oceans....
But reader, only believers are warranted and encouraged thus to commend their spirits into the hands of God at the dying hour; how sad is the state of all dying unbelievers. Their spirits too will fall into the hands of God, but this will be their misery and not their privilege. These will find 'it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God' (Heb. 10:31). Yes, because instead of falling into the arms of love, they will fall into the hands of justice.",p.138
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