Encouragement in Christ JESUS
"Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not Thy law." - Psalm 119:136 [KJV] Who is there of whom this may be said? Jesus, and Jesus only. He wept indeed over His beloved Jerusalem, for He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And the love He had to His redeemed, induced a bloody sweat through all the pores of His sacred body. But of every other may it not be said, "All seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's." Did we truly love Zion, would not rivers of tears run down at the present languishing state of Zion? Did we feel the full sense of distinguishing grace, would not every heart mourn over the ruins of our common nature? Think, my soul, what a mass of sin ascends as a cloud before the view of the Lord every day from a single heart of the desperately wicked transgressor? Think what an accumulation in a town, a province, an empire, the world! Might not rivers of waters run down at the contemplation? And worse, if