We are all, of course, creatures of desire; God made us so, and philosophies like Stoicism and religions like Buddhism which aim at the extinction of desire are really inhuman in their thrust. But desire that is sinfully disordered needs redirecting, so that we stop coveting […]
When those that have been earnestly seeking Christ come to find him, [they] have reason to rejoice with exceeding great joy. Before Christ is found, there is nothing that is truly lovely that is ever found or seen. Those things that they had been conversant with […]
As divine love doth advance and elevate the soul, so it is that alone which can make it happy. The highest and most ravishing pleasures, the most solid and substantial delights, that human nature is capable of, are those which arise from the endearments of a […]
The love of God is a delightful and affectionate sense of the divine perfections, which makes the soul resign and sacrifice itself wholly unto him, desiring above all things to please him, and delighting in nothing so much as in fellowship and communion with him, and […]
And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. Galatians 5:24 (KJV) By flesh we are here to understand carnal lust, the workings and motions of corrupt nature; and by the affections we are to understand, not the natural, but the […]