Clouds and doubts vanish
How does experience confirm this? Even after God has opened the eyes of our understanding, if we seek or desire anything else than God, how soon is our foolish heart darkened? Then clouds again rest upon our souls. Doubts and fears again overwhelm us. We are tossed to and fro and know not what to do, or which is the path wherein we should go. But when we desire and seek nothing but God, clouds and doubts vanish away. We who were once darkness are now light in the Lord (Ephesians 5:8). The night now shines as the day, and we find the path of the upright is light. God shows us the path wherein we should go and makes plain the way before our face.
1771 text
How does experience confirm this? Even after God hath opened the eyes of our understanding, if we seek or desire any thing else than God, how soon is our foolish heart darkened? Then clouds again rest upon our souls. Doubts and fears again overwhelm us. We are tossed to and fro, and know not what to do, or which is the path wherein we should go. But when we desire and seek nothing but God, clouds and doubts vanish away. We who were sometime darkness, are now light in the Lord. The night now shineth as the day; and we find, the path of the upright is light. God sheweth us the path wherein we should go, and maketh plain the way before our face.
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Sermon 28 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:19-23.
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