Sunday, September 25, 2011

Man and the Sea

Man is more troublesome and unruly than the sea.  The sea respects its boundary and though it be but a belt of sand, it does not overleap the limit.  Mighty as it is, it hears the divine and when most raging with tempest, it respects the Word.   But self-willed man defies heaven and oppresses earth, neither is there any end to his rebellious rage.  The sea, obedient to the moon, ebbs and flows with ceaseless regularity and thus renders an active as well as a passive obedience.  But man, restless beyond his sphere, sleeps within the lines of duty, indolent where he should be active.

Oh that our nature were but one thousandth part as much conformed to the will of God.  We call the sea fickle and false, but how constant it is!  "Lord, rule us for Thine own glory!"    (Spurgeon, Sept. 16 Eve.)

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