photo credit (Alexander MacLaren, "Open Sins") "Hold me up, and I shall be safe!" Ps. 119:117 The first lesson we have to learn is that without Divine help we cannot stand; and that with it we cannot fall. We must cultivate a spirit of lowly dependence, of self conscious weakness. We need a mightier strength than our own, which shall curb all this evil nature of ours, and restrain us from sin. When God's Spirit comes into a man's heart, He will deaden his desires after earth and forbidden ways. He will bring blessed higher objects for all our affections. He who has been fed on "the hidden manna" will not be likely to hanker after the leeks and onions that grew in the Nile mud in Egypt, however strong their smell and pungent their taste. He who has tasted the higher sweetnesses of God will have his heart's desires after lower delights, strangely deadened and cooled. My heart, touched by the Spirit of God dwelling in me, will turn to Him, and I shall find little sweetness in the otherwise tempting delicacies that earth can supply. God desires to cleanse us from the filth of the swine trough and the rags of our exile, and clothe us in fine linen, clean and white. If you will put yourselves into His hands, He will give you new powers to detect the serpents in the flowers, and new resolution to shake off the vipers into the fire. "Hold me up, and I shall be safe!" Ps. 119:117 |
Monday, November 26, 2012
Hold me up By Alexander MacLaren
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