Fri.-Sabbath, 2/7-9/14 Devotion

Sunday is coming, DV! Wahoo! Here is Thomas Watson, from "The Art of Di-vine Contentment"--in order to help prepare us for the church's worship of our Redeemer:

"God sees, in His infinite wisdom, that the same condition is not convenient for all. That which is good for one, may be bad for another. One season of weather will not serve all men’s occasions, one needs sunshine, another rain. One condition of life will not fit every man, no more than one suit of apparel will fit every body. Prosperity is not fit for all, nor yet adversity. If one man be brought low, perhaps he can bear it better; he has a greater stock of grace, more faith and patience. He can 'gather grapes of thorns,' pick some comfort out of the cross.

"Every one cannot do this. Another man is seated in an eminent place of dig-nity; he is fitter for it; perhaps it is a place that requires more parts of judg-ment, which every one is not capable of. Perhaps he can use his estate bet-ter, he has a public heart as well as a public place. The wise God sees that condition to be bad for one, which is good for another; hence it is He places men in different orbs and spheres; some higher, some lower."