The LORD will be to us
the greatest good without any of the drawbacks which seem necessarily to
attend the best earthly things.
If a city is favored with broad rivers,
it is liable to be attacked by galleys with oars and other ships of
war.
But when the LORD represents the abundance of His bounty under this
figure, He takes care expressly to shut out the fear which the metaphor
might suggest.
Blessed be His perfect love!
LORD, if Thou send me
wealth like broad rivers, do not let the galley with oars come up in the
shape of worldliness or pride.
If Thou grant me abundant health and
happy spirits, do not let "the gallant ship" of carnal ease come sailing
up the flowing flood.
If I have success in holy service, broad as the
German Rhine, yet let me never find the galley of self-conceit and self-confidence floating on the waves of my usefulness.
Should I be so
supremely happy as to enjoy the light of Thy countenance year after
year, yet let me never despise Thy feeble saints, nor allow the vain
notion of my own perfection to sail up the broad rivers of my full
assurance.
LORD, give me that blessing which maketh rich and neither
addeth sorrow nor aideth sin.
~C.H. Spurgeon~
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