All earthly delights are but \u201cstreams\u201d. But God is the ocean.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Edwards<\/i><\/p>\n
Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.<\/p>\n
Brother Lawrence<\/i><\/p>\n
Our continual apprehension of God may produce our continual satisfaction in God, under all His dispensations. Whatever enjoyments are by God conferred upon us, where lies the relish, where the sweetness of them? Truly, we may come to relish our enjoyments, only so far as we have something of God in them. It was required in Psal. xxxvii. 4, \u201cDelight thyself in the Lord.\u201d Yea, and what if we should have no delight but the Lord? Let us ponder with ourselves over our enjoyments: \u201cIn these enjoyments I see God, and by these enjoyments, I serve God!\u201d<\/p>\n
And now, let all our delight in, and all our value and fondness for our enjoyments, be only, or mainly, upon such a divine score as this. As far as any of our enjoyments lead us unto God, so far let us relish it, affect it, embrace it, and rejoice in it: \u201cO taste, and feed upon God in all;\u201d and ask for nothing, no, not for life itself, any further than as it may help us, in our seeing and our serving of our God.<\/p>\n
And then, whatever afflictions do lay fetters upon us, let us not only remember that we are concerned with God therein, but let our concernment with God procure a very profound submission in our souls. Be able to say with him in Psal. xxxix. 9, \u201cI open not my mouth, because thou didst it.\u201d In all our afflictions, let us remark the justice of that God, before whom, \u201cwhy should a living man complain for the punishment of his sin?\u201d The wisdom of that God, \u201cwhose judgments are right.\u201d The goodness of that God, who \u201cpunishes us less than our iniquities do deserve.\u201d Let us behave ourselves, as having to do with none but God in our afflictions. And let our afflictions make us more conformable unto God: which conformity being effected, let us then say, \u201c\u2019Tis good for me that I have been afflicted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sirs, what were this, but a pitch of holiness, almost angelical! Oh! Mount up, as with the wings of eagles, of angels: be not a sorry, puny, mechanick sort of Christian any longer; but reach forth unto these things that are thus before you.<\/p>\n
Cotton Mather<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
All earthly delights are but \u201cstreams\u201d. But God is the ocean. Jonathan Edwards Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God. Brother Lawrence Our continual apprehension of God may produce our continual satisfaction in God, under all His dispensations. Whatever enjoyments are by God conferred upon us, where lies the relish, where … Continue reading “DELIGHT
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