More Thought-provoking Thoughts
Blessings and Burdens.
"It often comes to pass that, by clipping a promise, we shear off a blessing which we might have had if our faith had accepted the Sacred Word in its entirety. Oh, for a comprehensive faith as to all that is in the glorious covenant! Have you looked long enough at the promise to see all that is in it? What sheaves of blessing are tied up in a single promise, though it may only consist of a dozen words. I like to make up my troubles into bundles. Do you ever do that? If a man has nine, ten, twelve, fourteen parcels to carry, they may be all little ones, but what a worry they are to him! Here are some in this pocket and some in that, and they are more than he can manage, for they drop about everywhere. If he is a wise man, he finds a bag and puts the separate items together. True, they are no lighter, but they are much easier to carry. Bind your troubles into one burden, and then roll it upon the Lord, with your mercies do just the opposite; cut the string, and open the package. They will be no more, but they will give you more joy as you count them, and examine them one by one. Take care that your faith grasps the whole mass of blessings stored away in the promise, and mind you believe that it shall be even as God has told you."
The Bible.
"The Bible is not designed to indulge our curiosity, but to be the guide of our faith and the rule of our life. Like the pillar given to the Israelites, which was not intended to amuse them as naturalists, but to conduct them as travellers, to the land flowing with milk and honey."
The Song of Songs.
"The Song of Solomon is 'The Song of Songs,' as the choicest both of all the songs of the sons of men, and of all that Solomon sung: the chief of his thousand songs and five: the sweetest, the simplest, the highest, the deepest of the songs of the church in the house of her pilgrimage; above all others her song in the night until the day break and the shadows flee away. Said one who knew it well, 'Grace alone teaches it; experience alone can learn it.'"
