You may look the other way but you can never say you did not know.
William Wilberforce (1759 -1833)
My Soul Is Weary
My soul is weary with sorrow;
strengthen me according to your word.
Psalm 119: 28
“The men of the world are so far from this disposition, that if they
have health and wealth, they marvel what it is should make a man heavy:
they are not acquainted with the exercise of a feeling conscience; they
know not the defects of the spiritual life, and are not grieved at them:
being dead in sin they feel not that they want life; all their care is
to eat and drink and make merry.
But miserable are they; for in their best
estate they are as oxen fed for the slaughter. Woe be to them who laugh now,
they shall mourn; but blessed are they who mourn now, for they shall be
comforted.”
William Cowper
I have chosen the way of truth; I have set my heart on your laws.
Psalm 119:30
“I have chosen the way of truth.” Religion is not a matter of chance,
but of choice. Have we weighed things in the balance, and, upon mature
deliberation, made an election,- “We will have God upon any terms?”
Have we sat down and reckoned the cost,- or what religion must cost us,
-the parting with our lusts; and what it may cost us, – the parting with
our lives?
Have we resolved, through the assistance of grace, to own
Christ when the swords and staves are up?
and to sail with him, not
only in a pleasure-boat, but in a man-of-war?
This choosing God speaks him to be ours: hypocrites profess God out of worldly design, not religious choice.
Thomas Watson, In ” The Morning Exercises.”
From the “Treasury of David Classic Reflections of the Wisdom of the Psalms” Hendrickson Publishers p.201,203
by Charles H. Spurgeon
