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October 16th Evening
“With Thee is the fountain of life.” — Psalm 36:9
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 Father’s 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 God’s place, and then they are of no value. Anything becomes an idol when…
it keeps us away from God: even the brazen serpent is to be
despised as “Nehushtan,” if we worship it instead of God. The prodigal
was never safer than when he was driven to his father’s bosom, because he
could find sustenance nowhere else. Our Lord favours us with a famine in
the land that it may make us seek after Himself the more. The best
position for a Christian is living wholly and directly on God’s grace — still
abiding where he stood at first — “Having nothing, and yet possessing all
things.” Let us never for a moment think that our standing is in our
sanctification, our mortification, our graces, or our feelings, but know that
because Christ offered a full atonement, therefore we are saved; for we are
complete in Him. Having nothing of our own to trust to, but resting upon
the merits of Jesus — His passion and holy life furnish us with the only
sure ground of confidence. Beloved, when we are brought to a thirsting
condition, we are sure to turn to the fountain of life with eagerness.
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Voice Artist: Ian Cullen
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“With Thee is the fountain of life.” — Psalm 36:9
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 Father’s 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 God’s place, and then they are of no value. Anything becomes an idol when…
it keeps us away from God: even the brazen serpent is to be
despised as “Nehushtan,” if we worship it instead of God. The prodigal
was never safer than when he was driven to his father’s bosom, because he
could find sustenance nowhere else. Our Lord favours us with a famine in
the land that it may make us seek after Himself the more. The best
position for a Christian is living wholly and directly on God’s grace — still
abiding where he stood at first — “Having nothing, and yet possessing all
things.” Let us never for a moment think that our standing is in our
sanctification, our mortification, our graces, or our feelings, but know that
because Christ offered a full atonement, therefore we are saved; for we are
complete in Him. Having nothing of our own to trust to, but resting upon
the merits of Jesus — His passion and holy life furnish us with the only
sure ground of confidence. Beloved, when we are brought to a thirsting
condition, we are sure to turn to the fountain of life with eagerness.
To make sure you never miss an episode, please subscribe today wherever you listen to podcasts.
Producer: Todd Adkins
Voice Artist: Ian Cullen
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