![]() If, then, you are separated from the world by being brought into the wilderness if you are passing through trials and afflictions if you are exercised with a variety of temptations, and are brought into that spot where the creature yields neither help nor hope, then you are made to see and feel that nothing but God’s voice speaking with power to your soul can give you any solid grounds of rest or peace.īut is not this profitable? It may be painful it is painful but it is profitable, because by it we learn to look to the Lord and the Lord alone, and this must ever be a blessed lesson to learn for every child of God. And there she shall answer gas in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt. and make the Valley of Achor5 a door of hope. 15 And there I will give her her vineyards. God has led you into the wilderness to bereave you of these earthly ties, of these creature refuges and vain hopes, that He may Himself speak to your soul. 14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and ebring her into the wilderness, and fspeak tenderly to her. When you are in the wilderness, you have no friend, no creature help, no worldly comfort: these have all abandoned you. We want the Lord himself to speak and the Lord alone and to speak such words as shall reach our heart and enter with divine power into our conscience. There God must speak if there is to be any heart religion, any sound or saving experience, any knowledge of the truth so as to be blessed and saved thereby.īut in the wilderness we learn the deep necessity there is that God should speak to our heart. He may have his head well furnished with notions, yet a heart destitute of grace.īut not so with the vessels of mercy, for they “believe with the heart unto righteousness ” and it is by the voice of God heard in the heart that a saving faith is raised up in the soul. All religion first and last lies in a man’s heart. Men may speak to the ear, and they can do no more but God speaks to the heart, for it is there that his voice alone is heard. It is in the margin “to her heart ” and God speaks to the heart that is the special characteristic of his voice. “Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.” Hosea 2:14 "I will allure her, and bring her into the wildern.BEFORE GOD CAN SPEAK COMFORTABLY TO YOUR HEART, HE BRINGS YOU INTO THE WILDERNESS."Ask and it shall be given you" (Matt.The Inseparability of Faith and Obedience. ![]()
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