![]() ![]() Death is terrible it is called the king of terrors but to sweeten this, it is called a sleep. But to sweeten this, He is called the God of all consolations. There is nothing terrible but God has joined some comfortable thing with it. "Whenever you think of any thing which is in itself terrible, or matter of discouragement, be sure that you mingle the consideration thereof with those sweet things which God has given and prescribed to you. Know ye, therefore, any man that is in this valley of Baca, where no water is, yet if he can find in his heart to dig pits, to pray, read, hear, meditate, confer, and perform duties though those duties be empty of comfort for the present, yet the rain of grace and mercy shall fall upon those pits, and he shall go from strength to strength until he appear before the Lord in Glory." These sometimes are in a dry and barren condition, where no water or comfort is yet if in this condition they dig pits, go to prayer, wait upon God in duty, though they find no comfort springing up in their duty for the present, yet in due time the rain of God’s blessing will fill those dry pits and empty duties, whereby their life shall be like unto a pool of water, and they shall go from strength of grace to strength of grace, until they see the Lord. "There is a generation of men in the world that have the law of God in their hearts, though they cannot act and work towards God as they would. Pits may not be dug in the darkness of night but can be dug even in the darkness of a cloud. When they dig pits in the dry valley God would fill them with refreshing rains. The darkness caused by clouds is only momentary and will pass away.īridges uses the illustration of the pilgrims passing through the dry valley of Baca in Psalm 84. ![]() ![]() "The more you see Christ walking in the sweet shades of divine love toward poor sinners, the sooner will your faith revive, and your comforts be restored."īridge’s argues that for the Christian the darkness that we experience is as the darkness of a cloud after sunrise (conversion) rather than a perpetual darkness of night that follows sunset. "But you say, Alas! all my comforts lie prostrate at the feet of my fears, and now I have no peace at all." Both would fall to the ground: but the ivy leans upon the oak, and the vine upon the posts or the house-side." You know how it is with the ivy and the vine the ivy leans upon the oak, and the vine upon the posts or the house-side the ivy and the vine do not lean one upon another if the ivy and the vine should come and lean upon one another, what twisting would there be. Lifting up the downcast full#You that are weak, and full of doubtings, should go and lean upon those that are strong and have full assurance and you that have assurance should give the shoulder to those that are weak, and say, Come, and lean upon me, and I will be an help unto you. "Do you want peace and comfort and quietude of soul? Take heed how you walk with doubting company … one opposer of godliness draws on another, and one adulterer makes another so one doubting Christian makes another. The Spirit is engaged to give his people peace by his virtue of his being our Advocate/Comforter. Morning by morning he awakens he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. Lifting up the downcast how to#(Isaiah 50:4) The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are learned, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. As well as by his qualifications and endowments that he received from his Father for this purpose. The Son is engaged to give his people peace by his disposition (meekly riding a donkey, will not call out in the streets) and by his office as High Priest. The Father is engaged to give his people peace by his prerogative, commandment, promise, redemption and chastising of his people. (Psalms 42:11) Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. ![]()
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