7. Lo, then would I wander far off. Yet when
David was far off, he sighed to be once more near Jerusalem; thus, in our ill
estate we ever think the past to be better than the present. And remain in the wilderness. He found it none such a dear abode when there, yet resolves
now to make it his permanent abode. Our Lord, while free from all idle wishes,
found much strength in solitude, and loved the mountain’s brow at midnight, and
the quiet shade of the olives of Gethsemane. It is better practically to use
retirement than pathetically to sigh for it. Yet it is natural, when everybody
is doing us wrong, to wish to separate ourselves from their society; nature,
however, must yield to grace, and we must endure the contradiction of sinners
against ourselves, and not be weary and faint in our minds. Selah. When
we are going too fast, and giving way too freely to regrets, it is well to
pause awhile, till more sober thoughts return.
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