In the same hour in which the soul of man is by grace weaned from itself and-its own high thoughts, it begins to hope and rejoice in the Lord Jesus Christ. Yet, for a man to have the Lord alone for his confidence seems, to the unrenewed mind, the highest presumption; to put a present, an immediate trust in the Lord for all the future, in time and in eternity, is thought to be unhallowed boldness, and not humility or weanedness of heart. The whole dealings of God with man bring us back to the ever memorable words of the Lord Jesus ( Matthew 11:25-26 ). I. The first weaning of the soul the grand event of a man’s history. When God begins to deal with you in saving grace. He weans you from self, in its various forms, according to our Lord’s teaching ( Matthew 16:24 ). This self-denial includes weaning from the world, from your own will, from your own strength. II. The joy in the Lord that springs up in every weaned soul. The Lord your is now ransom, your right...
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