It is not of necessity that a child of God beginning well goes on well; but if he take good heed to his ways—according to Psalm 119., and like Scriptures—he will surely run well to the end of his race.
The more bitter the cup of discipline, the more reason for our thankfulness. If we be not thankful, let us give God no rest, nor ourselves, until He make us so.
Correction despised brings sharper correction.
When God visits us with certain special discipline, it is our wisdom to accept the cup and drink it cheerfully, however bitter, for health is in it.
Let us have no reserves of conscience. When God gives us light, let us follow it whithersoever it may lead; for, while God has no judgments of curse for His children, He has judgments of displeasure of love because of disobedience.
Be more desirous of inward help and deliverance, than the removal of God’s hand, when He lays affliction upon you.
Impatience under God’s corrections only shows our need of the discipline He is pleased to visit us with. We can least bear correction when we most need it.
One of the evil fruits of long-continued spiritual negligence, is the soul’s ignorance of its own state.
How often, under discipline, are the children of God struggling amidst the thickets and briers of circumstances, instead of judging the state of their hearts! This lack of pondering their ways, prevents their seeing the equity of God’s dealings with them.