A Blessed Life

“Happy is that people whose God is the LORD” (Psalm 144:15).

See what easy, pleasant lives the people of God might live, if it were not for their own faults. There are those who fear God and work righteousness, and are accepted of the Lord, but go drooping and disconsolate from day to day, are full of cares, and fears, and complaints, and make themselves always uneasy; and it is because they do not live that life of delight in God, and dependence on him, that they might and should live.

God has effectually provided for their dwelling at ease, but they make not use of that provision he has laid up for them.

Oh that all who appear to be conscientious, and are afraid of sin, would appear to be cheerful, and afraid of nothing, else; that all who call God Father, and are in care to please him, and keep themselves in his love, would learn to cast all their other care upon him, and commit their way to him as a Father.

He shall choose our inheritance for us, and knows what is best for us, better than we do for ourselves. “Thou shalt answer, Lord, for me.” It is what I have often said, and will abide by,” That a holy, heavenly life, spent in the service of God, and in communion with him, is the most pleasant, comfortable life anybody can live in this world” (Matthew Henry).

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