Without confidence in the love of God we cannot cheerfully submit to His discipline.
Let not the morrow be as a thief to rob you of this day’s blessing.
We are apt to judge of things by present appearances; but the Lord sees them in all their consequences.
Murmurers always extol times past as better than the present. The people of Israel in Egypt groaned by reason of hard bondage. Having passed the Red Sea they sang the song of redemption: but how ready were they to say one to another, “Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt” (Num. 14:4). Had Moses desired to shame them, he might have asked: “What said you under Pharaoh’s yoke?”
Dangers and Temptations
If we would keep the creature in its place, we must take God as our portion.
Being an heir of glory I would, by God’s grace, rather break stones on the road for Him than be put to the drudgery of ruling an empire.
Spiritual prosperity is always attended with strong temptation to the high thought, the lofty imagination.
The worst temptations are those which so pamper and please the flesh that they do not vex us at all: they are perilous by their deceitfulness.
The outward falls of the children of God always bespeak the foregoing state of the heart.