0250. ENLARGEMENT IN AND THROUGH SORROWS.

ENLARGEMENT IN AND THROUGH SORROWS.

Psa_4:1

I. Freedom. Blessed Liberty when in Sorrow.

1. "Thou hast set me at large when I was in distress" (R.V.).

2. He is with us in our sorrows, and gives wonderful compensations.

3. He gives a sense of glorious enlargement in soul and spirit.

4. The sick room has not the ceiling and walls for an horizon. The soul mounts upward, still upward.

II. Enlargement through Distresses.

1. An enlarged heart. Room for others.

2. An enlarged sympathy. Thought for others.

3. Enlarged prayers. Prayers for others.

4. Enlargement of gratitude. Our songs of praise for personal deliverances increase in volume and sweetness.

Autor: James Smith