O God, Save Us!
"O
send out Thy
light and Thy
truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto Thy
holy hill, and to Thy
tabernacles." -PSALM
43:3 [KJV]
A
living man cannot, in his right mind, bear the idea of standing
still, that is to say, standing still so as to have no spiritual work
going on within; and still less can he bear the idea of going
backward. He wants to go forward. He is often dissatisfied with his
state; he feels how little he knows; he is well certified of the
shallowness of his attainments in the divine life, as well as of the
ignorance and the blindness that are in him; and therefore, laboring
under the feeling of his own shortcomings for the past, his
helplessness for the present, and his ignorance for the future, he
wants to go forward wholly and solely in the strength of the Lord, to
be led, guided, directed, kept, not by the wisdom and power of the
creature, but by the supernatural entrance of light and truth into
his soul.
The
mercy-seat is continually covered with clouds; God hideth Himself,
and he cannot behold Him; the truth seems obscured so that he cannot
realise it. He often cannot find his way to Christ; he cannot
perceive the path of life, nor whether his feet are in that path. He
sees so few marks of grace in his soul, and feels so powerfully the
workings of sin and corruption; he finds so few things for him and so
many things against him, that he often staggers, and is perplexed in
his mind, and seems almost to come to a feeling in his heart, that he
is destitute of the grace of God altogether, that the secret of the
Lord is not with him, but that he is a hypocrite in Zion, who has
never had even the beginning of wisdom communicated to his soul.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
February
13th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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