The Full Heart

All my springs are in Thee, said David. If thou hast all thy springs in God, thy heart will be full enough. If thou goest to the foot of Calvary, there will thy heart be bathed in love and gratitude. If thou dost frequent the vale of retirement, to hold communion with thy God, it is there that thy heart shall be full of calm resolve. If thou goest out with thy Master to the hill of Olivet, and dost with Him look down upon a wicked Jerusalem, and weep over it with Him, then will thy heart be full of love for souls. If thou dost continually draw thine impulse, thy life, the whole of thy being from the Holy Spirit, without whom thou canst do nothing, and if thou dost live in close fellowship with Christ, there will be no fear of thy having a dry heart. He who lives without prayer-he who lives with little prayer-he who seldom reads the Word-he who seldom looks up to heaven for a fresh influence from on high-he will be the man 'whose heart will become dry and barren; but he who calls in secret on his God-who spends much time in retirement-who delights to meditate on the words of the Most High-whose soul is given up to Christ- who delights in His fulness, rejoices in His all-sufficiency, prays for His second coming, and delights in the thought of His glorious advent-such a man, I say, must have an overflowing heart; and as his heart is, such will his life be. It will be a full life; it will be a life that, should he be called home, will speak from the grave, and wake the echoes of. the future. "Keep thine heart with all diligence," and entreat God that the Holy Spirit keep it full; for otherwise, the issues of thy life will be feeble, shallow and superficial; and thou mayest as well not have lived at all.

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unknown | Jan 1932
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