Experience
It is only as by faith we see our Home above, that we are proper pilgrims here.
We rightly use our past Experience, if, in time present, we have no confidence in the flesh.
Experience obtained without much waiting on God is not worthy the name: “Patience worketh Experience” (Rom. 5:4)1.
Our past Experience should be well pondered before God. The record of the pilgrimage of every one of us will be found in the great book of God’s government, by-and-by to be opened.
God requires steadfastness of faith from those who have had especial proofs of His love.
The spring of instability of purpose is some hankering within us after praise of man.
The more we walk with God, the more we shall sorrow for our sins and those of others. This sorrow well consists with joy in the Holy Ghost.
We never hinder another’s service or grace without hindering our own: “Quench not the Spirit.”
Let us always be aiming at perfection: thus we shall grow in the knowledge of our imperfection.
“Tribulation worketh Patience;” but if tribulation pass by without working patience, we cannot have “Experience” (Rom. 5:3)2.