Our past Experience should be well pondered before God. The record of the pilgrimage of every one of us will be found in the great book of God’s government, by-and-by to be opened.
God requires steadfastness of faith from those who have had especial proofs of His love.
The spring of instability of purpose is some hankering within us after praise of man.
The more we walk with God, the more we shall sorrow for our sins and those of others. This sorrow well consists with joy in the Holy Ghost.
We never hinder another’s service or grace without hindering our own: “Quench not the Spirit.”
Let us always be aiming at perfection: thus we shall grow in the knowledge of our imperfection.
“Tribulation worketh Patience;” but if tribulation pass by without working patience, we cannot have “Experience” (Rom. 5:3).
A Sound Mind
One special mark of a sound mind is a readiness to take counsel of God, and a bringing into subjection all notions of our own or of others to His revealed will.
It is not by change of circumstances that we can be made happy, but by submission to the will of God. This submission is manifested by our steadfast purpose to mortify the will of the flesh, and by our contending against everything that offends God.