Clarity, Brevity, Pertinence, Application, Usefulness
This is a most faithful and useful update of Goodwin’s excellent insights into our corrupted thoughts by nature.
Pastor Hedges takes Goodwin’s God-given wisdom from scripture about the nature of our thoughts as they are disordered and corrupted by the fall, and updates the language, clarifies and simplifies Goodwin’s writing (his thoughts) on this most important and essential topic.
Goodwin, with Hedges help, shows us why and how our thoughts are vain, disordered, foolish and sinful by nature but he does not stop there. For while it is necessary to first understand the extent of the problem before we are inclined to correct it; it also essential to know how to go about the business of “bringing every thought into the captivity of Christ”.
Yes, this is actually possible, to a great extent, even in this life, otherwise we would not be instructed to do so by scripture. And in this age of near infinite external distractions to meaningful, profitable thinking, such as has never before have existed, how timely and useful is this little book by Goodwin, who was not as distracted by the world, flesh, and devil, as some great Puritan thinkers, even in the Puritan days, when such distractions were more recognized and set aside, than in previous, and succeeding, times.
Please do go and think about this little book and reap the rewards it will inevitably provide for all whom The Spirit of Christ illuminates through its prayerful meditation.
