Christian, WHAT IS YOUR CHIEF AIM?
" If Thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence." — Exodus 33:15 [KJV] Happy for us if this was our address to the Lord under every enterprise; how many distresses and difficulties should we avoid! how much more peaceful and comfortable should we be in our journey through life! It is a blessed thing to have an especial eye to God's presence, as well as to His providence. The Lord may permit His children to succeed in their schemes and undertakings in the course of His providence, when He doth not accompany their souls with His favor and presence. Yea, believer, canst thou not see in many of thy ways wherein thou hast been permitted to go, that they have proved the very means of losing the sweet sense of thy Lord's presence? whatever outward profit or pleasure thou hast gained, verily thou must confess to have sustained an inward loss. How doth it behove every disciple of Jesus to "consider his ways!" It is thy wisdom daily to reflect, w