But let all those that put their trust in Thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because Thou defendest them: let them also that love Thy name be joyful in Thee. -Psalm 5:11

The first thing, dearly beloved brethren, whereof we often make a fortress wherein to hide, is-the love of the creature. The Christians’ happiness should be in God, and God alone. He should be able to say, “All my springs are in Thee. From Thee, and Thee alone, I ever draw my bliss.” Christ in His person, His grace, His offices, His mercy, ought to be our only joy, and our glory should be that.” Christ is all.” But beloved, we are too much inclined by nature to hew out for ourselves broken cisterns that hold no water. There is a drop or two of comfort somewhere in the bottom of the leaky pitcher, and until it is dried up, we do not believe it is broken at all. We trust in that sooner than in the fountain of living waters. Now whenever any of us foolishly make a battlement of the creature, God will say to afflictions-“Go ye up against her: take away her battlements, for they are not the Lord’s.”

Oh, what a mercy it is that He does not make a “full end,” beloved!..There may be an end of our hopes, an end of our faith, an end of our confidence at times, but it is not a full end… Though He has taken away many joys, and blasted many hopes, though many of our fair flowers have been blighted, He has left something. One star will twinkle in the sky, one faint lamp glimmers from yonder distant cottage-thou art not quite lost, O wanderer of the night. He has not made a full end; but He may do so unless we come to Him. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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