2. The Christian life has two elements in it, the contemplative and the
active, and both are richly provided for. What are the green pastures
but the Scriptures of truth—always fresh, always rich, and never exhausted?
When by faith we are enabled to find rest in the promises, we are like the
sheep that lie down in the pasture; we find at the same moment both rest and
refreshment. It is the Lord who graciously enables us to perceive the
preciousness of his truth, and to feed upon it. How grateful ought we to be for
the power to appropriate the promises! There are some distracted souls who
would give worlds if they could but do this. They know the blessedness of it,
but they cannot say that this blessedness is theirs. Those believers who have
for years enjoyed a “full
assurance of faith” should greatly bless
their gracious God.
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