Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. – Colossians 3:2

There is a father-he has a son. That son is as dear to him as his own flesh and blood. Let him take heed lest that child become too much his darling, lest he sets him in the place of the Most High God, and makes an idol of him for as sure as ever he does, God, by affliction, will say to the enemy, “Go up against him: take away his battlements, for they are not the Lord’s.” There is a husband. He coats upon his wife, as he should do. The Scripture telleth us, that a man cannot love his wife too much: “Husbands love your wives, as Christ also loves the Church”-and that is infinitely. Yet this man has proceeded to a foolish fondness and idolatry. God says, “Go ye up against him make not a full end; take away his battlements, for they are not the Lord’s.” We fix our love and affection on some dear friend of ours, and there is our hope and trust. God says, “What though ye take counsel together, ye have not taken counsel of Me, and therefore, I will take away your trust. What though ye have walked in piety, ye have not walked with Me as ye should. Go ye up against her, O death! go ye against her, O affliction! Take away that battlement, it is not the Lord’s. Ye shall live on Me-ye shall not feed, like Ephraim, on the wind. Ye shall lean on My arm; ye shall not trust in the staff of these broken reeds. Ye shall set your affections on things above, and not on things on earth. For I will blast the Joy of earth. I will send a blight upon your fair harvest. I will make the clouds obscure your sun, and you shall cry unto Me, ‘O God, Thou art my trust, my sun, my hope, my all.'” ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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