Thou crownest the year with thy goodness;
and thy paths drop fatness.
Psalm 65:11
"Centuries are flying, and yet the darkness lingers; time grows old, and
yet the idols sit upon their thrones.....the sceptres are still in the hands of
despots.
comes, His “paths drop fatness.”
He may sometimes seem to pinch His people and
bring them into want, but if there be not a fatness of outward good,
there will be a fatness of inward mercy.
Even the trials which the Lord
scatters like coals of fire in His path, do but burn up the weeds and
warm the heart of the soil.
You that know the truth, and are made free by it, shall find that those paths drop fatness.
*Few Christians understand it, they live in the lowlands and seldom climb
to the top of Nebo; they live outside; they come not into the holy
place; they take not up the privilege of priesthood.
At a distance they
see the sacrifice, but they sit not down with the priest to eat thereof,
and to enjoy the fat of the burnt offering.
Brother, sister, sit thou
ever under the shadow of Jesus; come up to that palm-tree, and take hold
of the branches thereof; let thy beloved be unto thee as the apple-tree
among the trees of the wood, and thou shalt find a never-failing fruit,
which shall ever be sweet unto thy taste.
One suggestion is this: some of you are strangers to God,
you have been living as His enemies, and you will probably die so.
---But
what a blessing it would be if a part of the crown of this year should
be your conversion!
“The harvest is past and the summer is ended, and ye
are not saved.”
But oh, what a joy, if this very day you should turn
unto God and live!"
Charles Spurgeon