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1 | Preaching to Yourself! | Ps 42:11 | DocTrinsograce | 217380 | ||
"Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? Take those thoughts that come to you the moment you wake up in the morning. You have not originated them, but they start talking to you, they bring back the problems of yesterday, etc. "Somebody is talking. Who is talking? Your self is talking to you. Now this man's treatment was this; instead of allowing this self to talk to him, he starts talking to himself. 'Why art thou cast down, O my soul?' he asks. His soul had been depressing him, crushing him. So he stands up and says: 'Self, listen for a moment, I will speak to you...' "The main art in the matter of spiritual living is to know how to handle yourself. You have to take yourself in hand, you have to address yourself, preach to yourself, question yourself. You must say to your soul: 'Why art thou cast down' -- what business have you to be disquieted? "You must turn on yourself, upbraid yourself, condemn yourself, exhort yourself, and say to yourself: 'Hope thou in God' -- instead of muttering in this depressed, unhappy way. And then you must go on to remind yourself of God, Who God is, and what God is and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do. "Then having done that, end on this great note: defy yourself, and defy other people, and defy the devil and the whole world, and say with this man: 'I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance, who is also the health of my countenance and my God.'" --Martin Lloyd Jones |
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2 | Preaching to Yourself! | Ps 42:11 | Val | 217391 | ||
Dear Doc, very encouraging words. When I awake in the morning sometimes the first thing I say is "This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it". A grateful heart is a sure way to conqueor the blues. | ||||||
3 | Preaching to Yourself! | Ps 42:11 | DocTrinsograce | 217400 | ||
Dear Val, That is a good example. The old divines used to call this "discursive meditation" -- in addition to, but different from "systematic meditation." It is the idea of developing a habit of preaching the Word to yourself. The interesting thing about it, is that it can be triggered by various experiences around you. If you see a man carrying something heavy, you think "I once was under the burden of sin, but the Lord Jesus took upon Himself my sin!" When you see people entering the subway through the turn-styles, you think "Lord, I earnestly desire to enter the narrow way." When you see a house being built, you think, "The wise man builds his house upon the rock! The Lord is my sure foundation!" When you are feeling discouraged, you think "God is light and in Him is no darkness at all! This I know, and the Lord has given me this that my joy -- a joy that is independent of circumstance and simple emotion -- may be full and complete!" When you are happy, you think, "Eye hasn't seen, nor ear heard, nor has any man imagined what God has prepared for His own!" If you think about it, there are thousands of ways every day to do this! In Him, Doc |
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