Crying Unto God Most High
"Trust
in Him
at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before Him."
-PSALM
62:8 [KJV]
Have
we not sometimes been enabled to pour out our hearts at a throne of
grace, and tell the Lord what we really wanted, what we really asked
for, and tell him that nothing but that which he alone could give
would satisfy our souls? There have been such times of access to the
God of grace. And afterwards perhaps we have forgotten the things we
told Him of; we have been heedless of the prayers we laid at His
feet; and though very earnest at the time in seeking after certain
blessings, we left them at the Lord's feet and forgot them all.
But
the Lord does not forget them; they are treasured up in His
heart and memory; and in His
own time He
brings them to light, and gives the fulfilment of them. But before He
does it, He
will bring us into the spot where we want them again; and then we
have to tell Him,
and supplicate and ask Him
again, ashamed of ourselves perhaps that we should have asked the
Lord for these blessings and been as heedless of them as though we
did not care to receive them at His
hand; but still, under trouble, under soul necessity, under grief, we
go and tell Him
again. And then the Lord, in His
own time and way, brings about the very things we desired of Him;
opens up ways, lifts out of trials, removes burdens, makes a way in
the deep, which no eye but His
could see, and no hand but His
could open,—leads the soul into it, brings the soul through it,—and
then hides all glory from the creature, by making us fall down before
His
feet, and ascribe glory and honour and power and thanksgiving and
salvation unto God and the Lamb.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
May
23rd, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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