of first importance

I want to draw your attention to a blog that I've just added to my links segment on the right-hand column. Of First Importance provides a daily quote 'to help you live in the good of the gospel'.

A recent entry:

But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb.

- John 20:11

“What the Lord expects from us at such seasons is not to abandon ourselves to unreasoning sorrow, but trustingly to look sorrow in the face, to scan its features, to search for the help and hope, which, as surely as God is our Father, must be there. In such trials there can be no comfort for us so long as we stand outside weeping.

If only we will take the courage to fix our gaze deliberately upon the stern countenance of grief, and enter unafraid into the darkest recesses of our trouble, we shall find the terror gone, because the Lord has been there before us, and, coming out again, has left the place transfigured, making of it by the grace of his resurrection a house of life, the very gate of heaven.”

- Geerhardus Vos, Grace & Glory