Knowledge is to be found
Man gropes about as though walking in darkness. His way is beset on all sides with problems that press in upon him and clamour for a solution. To these problems man can often turn but an uncomprehending glance, for he has no knowledge to apply to their solution. Professing to know and also to be wise, nevertheless he does not know, and hence his decisions and judgments are not those of wisdom and knowledge. With God, however, knowledge is to be found, as well as the ability to apply this knowledge. God is all-knowing and God is all-wise. To be able to address such a God is a blessing indeed.
~ E. J. Young, on Psalm 139 v.2
When the mercy is ripe for us
God consults our benefit rather than our desires. We would go out of the ark before the ground is dried: and perhaps, if the door be shut, are ready to remove the covering. God’s time of showing mercy is certainly the best time, when the mercy is ripe for us and we are ready for it.
~ Matthew Henry
Beset on all sides with problems
Man gropes about as though walking in darkness. His way is beset on all sides with problems that press in upon him and clamour for a solution. To these problems man can often turn but an uncomprehending glance, for he has no knowledge to apply to their solution. Professing to know and also to be wise, nevertheless he does not know, and hence his decisions and judgments are not those of wisdom and knowledge. With God, however, knowledge is to be found, as well as the ability to apply this knowledge. God is all-knowing and God is all-wise. To be able to address such a God is a blessing indeed.
~ E. J. Young
Faith picks the thorns out of the flesh
Prayer of faith, exercised with perseverance, surely brings deliverance, if not immediately, yet at a proper season; and, till deliverance comes, the mind is stayed on God, and kept in perfect peace. Faith picks the thorns out of the flesh, and takes the rankling pain away before the wound is healed.
~ John Berridge
Whether you feel it or not
You are as safe in the hand of God, at the lowest ebb, as at the highest springtide of sensible comfort, because your safeguard is almighty, and He is equally concerned about your peace, whether you feel it or not. Your sense of it may vary, but He varies not.
~ William Romaine
We should like an independent fortune, but it cannot be
This is a beggar’s life; here’s nothing but alms. We don’t like it. We want some stock; if we could get it, we should like an independent fortune. But it cannot be. The Spirit of Jesus will witness of nothing, and glorify nothing but the Saviour’s all sufficient grace; and therefore he sets himself against all our greatness and goodness - that he who glorieth may glory only in the Lord Christ.
~ William Romaine