"O GOD, YOU Are My GOD, Earnestly I Seek YOU."

The compass-needle!
(Charles Spurgeon, "Flowers from a Puritan's Garden" 1883)

"The compass-needle may be 

shaken and agitated, but it never 

rests until it turns toward the pole!"

Thus our heart's affections, when 

once magnetized by  the love of 

CHRIST, find no rest unless we 

turn to HIM. 

The cares and labors of the day 

may carry our thoughts to other 

objects, even as a finger may turn 

the compass-needle to the east or 

west. But no sooner is the pressure 

removed, than our thoughts fly to 

the Well-beloved, just as the needle 

moves to its place.

We are unable to rest anywhere 

but in JESUS. The new birth has 

disqualified us for contentment 

with the world--

and hence we have 

no choice but to find our all 

in CHRIST. Blessed necessity!

We are driven to JESUS, by an unrest 

which finds no remedy elsewhere!

We are drawn to JESUS, by an impulse 

which we have no desire to resist!

We mourn that we are subject to 

many deflections and disturbances; 

but you know, O LORD, that our 

inmost soul seeks after YOURSELF!

"As the deer longs for streams 
of water, so I long for YOU, O GOD. 
I thirst for GOD, the living GOD!" 
Psalm 42:1-2 

"O GOD, YOU are my GOD, earnestly 
I seek YOU. My soul thirsts for YOU,  my 
body longs for YOU, in a dry and weary 
land where there is no water!" Psalm 63:1 

 
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GraceGems has published William Nicholson's uplifting short article,
"The Saint Crowned by the Chief Shepherd!"