(Octavius Winslow, “Evening Thoughts“) LISTEN to Audio! Download Audio
“For God makes my heart soft, and the Almighty troubles me.” Job 23:16
The hour of affliction is the hour of softening . . .
the hardness of the heart yields,
the callousness of the spirit gives way,
the affections become tender,
conscience is more susceptible.
The hour of softening is the season . . .
of holy abstraction,
meditation,
of prayer,
and of withdrawment from the world and from creature delights, while the soul is more closely shut in with God.
The heart, now emptied, humbled, and softened is prepared for the work of the Spirit; and what an impression is then made! What discoveries of God’s love to the soul! What enlarged views . . .
of the personal glory of Christ,
the infinite perfection of His work,
and of the preciousness of the atoning sacrifice,
of the hatefulness of sin, and
of the beauty of holiness!
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Something to ponder
Charles Spurgeon: “Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh. Would that our meditation were more in Heaven, and that we were more taken up with the person, the work, the beauty of our incarnate Lord.”
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