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Which is prior, faith or repentance?

“The question has been discussed: which is prior, faith or repentance? It is an unnecessary question and the insistence that one is prior to the other is futile. There is no priority. The faith that is unto salvation is a penitent faith and the repentance that is unto life is a believing repentance… It is impossible to disentangle faith and repentance. Saving faith is permeated with repentance and repentance is permeated with faith.”

- John Murray

God’s Providence Uses the Least Things

“There are many disorderly and irregular things in the world, and we wonder if God’s providence is in them. God makes use of even irregular things for His own glory. The silversmith makes use of every tool in his shop to master his craft, no matter how strange those tools might appear to a visitor. Thus it is with the providences of God: they seem to us to be very crooked and strange, yet they all carry on God’s work. “ – Thomas Watson