God's perfect blessings

SUMMARY: The Lord's blessings are the highest good for us, without any of the disadvantages that come with earthly things. Even when using the metaphor of wide rivers to represent abundance, the Lord takes care to exclude any fear that may come with it. The author asks that if the Lord blesses them with riches, health, happiness, or success, they also ask for protection from pride, worldliness, arrogance, and self-confidence. They ask for blessings that enrich without adding sadness or favoring sin.

The Lord will be the highest good for us, without any of the disadvantages that necessarily seem to accompany the best earthly things. If a city is favored with wide rivers, it has the propensity to be attacked by rowing galleys and other warships. But when the Lord represents the abundance of His bounty under this figure, He expressly takes care to exclude the fear that this metaphor might suggest. Blessed be His perfect love!

Lord, if You would send me riches like wide rivers, do not let the galley of oars come in the form of worldliness or pride. If you grant me abundant health and a happy state of mind, do not allow "the great ship" of carnal leisure to come sailing on the abundant waters. If I am successful in holy service, as long as the German Rhine, let me never face the galley of arrogance and self-confidence riding the waves of my usefulness. If I were so supremely happy as to enjoy the light of Your face year after year, let me never despise Your weak saints, nor allow the vain notion of my own perfection to navigate the wide rivers of my fullness. safety. Lord, give me that blessing that enriches, and does not add sadness or favor sin.

Source: The Bank of Faith Checkbook. Translation by Allan Roman.

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