11. For the Lord God is as un and shield. The pilgrim nation found both sun and shield
in the fiery cloudy pillar, and the Christian finds in the Lord his God a sun
for happy days and a shield for dangerous ones. The Lord will give grace and glory. Both are needed, to the
full. The Lord has grace and glory in infinite abundance; Jesus is the fullness
of both, and, as his chosen people, we shall receive both as a free gift from
the God of our salvation. No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. Grace makes us walk uprightly, and this secures every covenant
blessing. Some apparent good may be withheld, but no real good (1 Corinthians 3:22–23). There is no good apart from God, and there is no
good which he either needs to keep back or will on any account refuse us, if we
are but ready to receive it. We must be upright and neither lean to this or
that form of evil; and this uprightness must be practical—we must walk
in truth and holiness, then shall we be heirs of all things, and as we come of
age all things will be in our actual possession; and meanwhile, according to
our capacity for receiving shall be the measure of the divine bestowal. This is
true, not of a favored few, but of all the saints forevermore.
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