“In Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore!”- Psalm 16:11

If I find myself favoured by divine grace to stand amongst those favoured ones who frequent His courts, shall I not feel glad? I might have been in His prison, but I am before His throne: I might have been driven from His presence for ever, but I am permitted to come near to Him, even into His royal palace, into His secret chamber of gracious audience, shall I not then be thankful? Shall not my thankfulness ascend into joy, and shall I not feel that I am honoured, that I am made the recipient of great favours when I am permitted to pray? Wherefore is thy countenance sad, O suppliant, when thou standest before the throne of grace? If thou wert before the throne of justice to be condemned for thine iniquities, thy hands might well be on thy loins; but now thou art favoured to come before the King in His silken robes of love, let thy face shine with sacred delight. If thy sorrows be heavy, tell them unto Him, for He can assuage them; if thy sins be multiplied, confess them, for He can forgive them. O ye courtiers in the halls of such a monarch, be ye exceeding glad, and mingle praises with your prayers.

“Thou art coming to a king:
Large petitions with thee bring.”

We do not come, as it were, in prayer, only to God’s almonry where he dispenses His favours to the poor, nor do we come to the back-door of the house of mercy to receive the broken scraps, though that were more than we deserve; to eat the crumbs that fall from the Master’s table is more than we could claim; but, when we pray, we are standing in the palace, on the glittering floor of the great King’s own reception room, and thus we are placed upon a vantage ground. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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