Proverbs 16:33

REFLECTIONS

READER! I cannot better direct both your heart and my own, to a suitable subject for the Lord to bless to our joint reflections, than what this chapter, both at the opening and close, brings before us. If it be the Lord that prepares the heart, and gives the answer of the tongue; where shall we look both for habitual and actual preparations, but from him? Oh! that there may be always such a going forth of our minds upon the person and graces of the Lord Jesus, by the sweet influences of the Holy Ghost, that whether we read, or hear, or pray, or praise; faith in him and his great salvation may be always uppermost in our affections. Yes! blessed glorifier of my Lord! I do beseech thee to give to me this constant, habitual, and unceasing preparation, that the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart may be always acceptable in thy sight, 0 Lord my strength and my Redeemer. Sure I Am, that without thee I can do nothing. There is nothing in me disposed to do what is good. Nay, Lord, there is in me everything that is indisposed. And therefore, Lord! undertake for me. Work in me both to will and to do of thy good pleasure. And then, Lord, my voice shalt thou hear betimes in the morning, yea, I will direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.