Not a life of outward success and ease--much nobler than if He did.
Take Abram's as a type.
In war He will be our Defence.
In absence of other joys He will be Enough.
Sphered and included in Him is all sweetness. He sustains all
relations, and does for us what these other joys and goods partially do.
The possession of His love should put away all fear, since having Him
we are not at the mercy of externals.
What, then, is Life as men ordinarily make it?--what a blunder!