Thou crownest the year with thy goodness;
and thy paths drop fatness.
Psalm 65:11
and thy paths drop fatness.
Psalm 65:11
"We have none of us any adequate idea of the amount of happiness
conferred upon a nation by a luxuriant crop.
Every man in the land is
the richer for it.
To the poor man the difference is of the utmost
importance.
If every morning when we awoke we saw fresh loaves of bread put into our
cupboard, or the morning’s meal set out upon the table, we should think
it a miracle; but if our God blesses our own exertions and prospers our
own toil to the same end, is it not equally as much a ground for
praising and blessing his name?
O for heaven’s own fire to kindle your hearts.
O come, let us worship
and bow down, let us exalt the Lord our God, and come into His presence
with the voice of joy and thanksgiving.
Q: But how shall we give crowning thanksgiving for this crowning mercy of
the year?
A: We can do it by the inward emotions of
gratitude.
Let our hearts be warmed; let our spirits remember, meditate,
and think upon this goodness of the Lord.
Meditation upon this mercy
may tend to nourish in you the tenderest feelings of affection, and your
souls will be knit to the Father of spirits, who pitieth his children."
Charles Spurgeon
