by Arthur W. Pink
by Arthur W. Pink
Philologos Religious Online Books
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by Arthur W. Pink
November, 1941
SPIRITUAL CONTENTMENT.
Yours I received, and return many thanks to you for your kindness and prayers. I am blind, but bless the Lord, I am content. All that He doth is wise and just—all that comes in His will is welcome. His choice is better than mine. Eyes might have blinded, but blindness shall enlighten me. God hath not cast me off, but called me aside into the invisible world. There Jesus Christ is the only sun. Mercy is a sea of infinite sweetness for faith to bathe in. The promises are as green pastures of comfort: God Himself is the dew that makes a spring of graces in the heart. Heavenly truths are the firmament over our heads. The pure air is the Holy Spirit breathing in saints and ordinances. In this world the blind have a prospect, and may see the land afar off, which lieth beyond the line of time in another world. I may say it is good being here: I cannot see outward things, but the new creature is a better sight than all the world. I cannot read the letters in the Bible, but I have the quickening Spirit. It is enough.
The veil is upon my eyes, but my work is to rend off the veil of time from my heart, and look into eternity; to put back all creatures, and to have all in God, eyes and all; and this is the greatest possession. If I have all things in themselves, I have them but in a finite sphere; but if I have them all in God, I have them eminently, and in a kind of infinity. In waiting, I wait upon the Lord, till He incline and give me eagles' wings of faith and love, to soar up to Him. Near enough to Him I cannot be. O that I were unearthed and unselfed, that my soul might be in perpetual ascensions to Him, my love going out in raptures after Him! O for the circumcision of the heart! If the film were off mine eyes, I should see the outward world; but if the flesh were off my heart, I should love the blessed God, which is infinitely better.—E. Polhill, after he was blinded.
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