Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Robert Murray M'Cheyne is one of those vibrant, Spirit-empowered preachers from the past whose writings I cherish and whose ministry had far-reaching impact.

Perhaps his best known quote is one that I wish I could recall when God seems far away and the heavens seem like brass.

Here it is:

"If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He IS praying for me!" - Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Let's not forget that fact. He is always interceding for us, His beloved!

Here's a quote about M'Cheyne and a few other statements by him:

"No Christian can read the biography or the writings of Robert Murray M'Cheyne without realizing that the true measure of life is not its length, but its usefullness. He ministered but a short seven and a half years and died at the age of 29, yet the fruitfulness of that brief life remains to this day. Nor does the amount of our activity or our words reflect the true value of our life. M'Cheyne left notes of only some 300 sermons when he died in 1843, but his own counsel to a fellow minister explains why these sermons brought such abundant blessing, not only to 'the noisy mechanics and political weavers' of Dundee but, later, to all parts of the English-speaking world."

Here's that wise counsel to fellow ministers:

"Get your texts from God - your thoughts, your words, from God... It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin."

"Therefore He is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, because He always lives to intercede for them." - Hebrews 7:25 (NIV)

"...Christ Jesus...is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us." - Romans 8:34 (NIV)