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As we cannot live a moment out of God, so neither ought we to live a moment without God in the world. We ought continually to endeavor to walk in subservience to and converse with God; yea, and as far as may be, in a feeling converse with Him too.
It is a great mistake among many tender Christians to think that they have no communion with God but when they find God raising the springs of joy and comfort in their souls; when they find the sensible presence of God cheering, refreshing, and enlarging of them in their closets. Then they are willing to grant that they have had sweet communion with God in their closets, but if He breaks their hearts for sin, if He meets with them and makes His power and His presence manifest in debasing and casting down their souls upon the sight and sense of their strong corruptions and imperfections, how unwilling are they to believe that they have had any communication with God? Well, friends, remember this once for all, that a Christian may have as real communion with God in a heart-humbling way as he can have in a heart-comforting way; a Christian may have as choice communion with God when his eyes are full of tears as he can have when his heart is full of joy.
By chastisement man is made more attentive unto God. In prosperity the world makes such a noise in a man's ears that God cannot be heard. "He speaks indeed once and twice" again and again very often, "yet man perceives it not." He is so busy in the crowd of worldly affairs that God is not heeded.
It is the great mistake and folly of men that they make more haste to get their afflictions removed than sanctified.
Behold I show you a mystery! Sin brought affliction into the world, and God makes affliction to carry sin out of the world.
Affliction is God's forge wherein He softens the iron heart.
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