Psalm 36:9 With thee is the fountain of life. There are times in our spiritual experience when human counsel or sympathy, or religious ordinances, fail to comfort or help us. Why does our gracious God permit this? Perhaps it is because we have been living too much without him, and he therefore takes away everything upon which we have been in the habit of depending, that he may drive us to himself. It is a blessed thing to live at the fountain head. While our skin- bottles are full, we are content, like Hagar and Ishmael, to go into the wilderness; but when those are dry, nothing will serve us but Thou God seest me. We are like the prodigal, we love the swine-troughs and forget our Fathers house. Remember, we can make swine-troughs and husks even out of the forms of religion; they are blessed things, but we may put them in Gods place, and then they are of no value. ----> Anything becomes an idol when it keeps us away from God Beloved, when we are brought to a thirsting condition, we are sure to turn to the fountain of life with eagerness.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:15:49 +0000
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