The Master Motion

posted by Mommy H. 

From Samuel Rutherford's The Loveliness of Christ :

  " It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as O the place! O the time! O if this had been, this had not followed! O the linking of this accident with this time and place!
   Look up to the master motion and the first wheel."

And from Jim Elliot :

  Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living