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My Daily Meditation For The Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

JUNE The Twenty-fourth AT EASE IN ZION

|Woe to them that are at ease in Zion!|
-- AMOS vi.1-7.

I would be delivered from the folly of confusing ease and rest. There is an infinite difference between comforts and comfort. It is one thing to lie down on a luxurious couch: it is a very different thing to |lie down in green pastures| under the gracious shepherdliness of the Lord. The ease which men covet is so often a fruit of stupefaction, the dull product of sinful drugs, the wretched sluggishness of carnal gratification and excess. The rest which God giveth is alive and wakeful, abounding in tireless and fruitful service. |Oh, rest in the Lord.|

But is it not a strange thing that men can be |at ease in Zion|? That they can play the beast in the holy place? Zion was full of holy memory, and abounded with suggestions of the Divine Presence. And yet here they could carouse, and lose themselves in swinish indulgence! A little while ago I saw a beautiful old church which had been turned into a common eating-house!

My soul, be on thy guard. Be watchful and diligent, and busy thyself in the practice of |self-knowledge, self-reverence, self-control.|

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