KenH
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"With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation." Psalm 91:16
It is not in the number of our years that we shall find preparedness for death. It is not the longer a man lives the more will he be satisfied. ... Then what can the promise mean? Why, that God will satisfy his people with their length of life, whether long or short. God takes his children home at all ages, and he always satisfies them. He always brings them to see and feel that this life is empty and vain, and that it is better, far better, to live in his presence. You may be harassed by the thoughts of death, and be in bondage through the fears of death; your mind may be mulling, "How will it be with me then?"
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"With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation." Ah! the soul will never see it unless the Lord shows it to him; but the Lord will show it to him because he says he will. What can a man want more than to see God's salvation? All that he may want, all that he may need in his journey through this wilderness is summed up in that revelation. Is there not a sufficiency? Is there not that which he feels is enough? If these promises be mine and be yours, and if they be fulfilled to you and to me, what more can we possibly want?
- excerpt from J.C. Philpot's Through Baca's Vale, October 12
It is not in the number of our years that we shall find preparedness for death. It is not the longer a man lives the more will he be satisfied. ... Then what can the promise mean? Why, that God will satisfy his people with their length of life, whether long or short. God takes his children home at all ages, and he always satisfies them. He always brings them to see and feel that this life is empty and vain, and that it is better, far better, to live in his presence. You may be harassed by the thoughts of death, and be in bondage through the fears of death; your mind may be mulling, "How will it be with me then?"
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"With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation." Ah! the soul will never see it unless the Lord shows it to him; but the Lord will show it to him because he says he will. What can a man want more than to see God's salvation? All that he may want, all that he may need in his journey through this wilderness is summed up in that revelation. Is there not a sufficiency? Is there not that which he feels is enough? If these promises be mine and be yours, and if they be fulfilled to you and to me, what more can we possibly want?
- excerpt from J.C. Philpot's Through Baca's Vale, October 12