KenH
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"O LORD of hosts, Blessed is the man that trusteth in thee." Psalm 84:12
David saw how few there were that with all their hearts did trust in God. This feeling seems to have made him say, “Blessed is the man,” that peculiar man, that rare individual, “that trusteth in thee.” The blessing of God rests upon that happy, that highly-favoured man. He is blessed for time and for eternity. He has the blessing of God even now in his soul.
Oh how rare it is for us to be in that sweet, blessed frame when we can put our trust wholly in God, when we can trust him for life and death, and for all things, past, present, and to come. Yet without a measure of this faith, there is no solid peace, no real and abiding rest, and to this you must sooner or later come; for you cannot carry our own burdens without their breaking your back. But when you can cast your burden on the Lord, then you will surely find sweet relief.
May we not, then, join heart and voice with David and say, “O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee”? Such an one will never be disappointed. The Lord will hear his prayer; the Lord will bless his soul; the Lord will be with him in life, support him in death, and take him to be with him for all eternity.
excerpt from J.C. Phipot’s Through Baca’s Vale, December 6
David saw how few there were that with all their hearts did trust in God. This feeling seems to have made him say, “Blessed is the man,” that peculiar man, that rare individual, “that trusteth in thee.” The blessing of God rests upon that happy, that highly-favoured man. He is blessed for time and for eternity. He has the blessing of God even now in his soul.
Oh how rare it is for us to be in that sweet, blessed frame when we can put our trust wholly in God, when we can trust him for life and death, and for all things, past, present, and to come. Yet without a measure of this faith, there is no solid peace, no real and abiding rest, and to this you must sooner or later come; for you cannot carry our own burdens without their breaking your back. But when you can cast your burden on the Lord, then you will surely find sweet relief.
May we not, then, join heart and voice with David and say, “O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee”? Such an one will never be disappointed. The Lord will hear his prayer; the Lord will bless his soul; the Lord will be with him in life, support him in death, and take him to be with him for all eternity.
excerpt from J.C. Phipot’s Through Baca’s Vale, December 6
