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  APT TO HANG AND REST UPON CREATURE PROPS
  by Thomas Brooks
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Summary: God strips away our creature props to promote dependence on
Himself and reveal His sufficiency.

Topics: "Dependence On God", "Trust in Divine Providence"
Scripture References: Psalm 142:4

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Thomas Brooks emphasizes that God sometimes removes our earthly comforts
to draw us into a deeper reliance on Him. He illustrates this through
the psalmist's experience of feeling abandoned and turning to God as his
only refuge. When all human supports fail, believers are led to fully
trust in God, recognizing that true sustenance comes from Him alone.
This process of stripping away is ultimately for our spiritual benefit,
leading us to declare that all our fountains are found in God.

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("A Believer's Last Day, His Best Day")

God sometimes strips His people of their dearest mercies, that

He may win them to a more complete and full dependence upon

His blessed self. Man is a creature apt to hang and rest upon

creature props. "Look to my right and see;" says the psalmist,

"no one is concerned for me. I have no refuge; no one cares for

my life." Psalm 142:4. Well, what does he do, now that all props

fail him? Why, now he sweetly leans upon God--"I cry to You, O

Lord; I say--You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the

living." verse 5. Men will hold upon one prop, and if God cuts off

that--then they will catch hold on another, etc., until God cuts

off all their props--and then they will come and rest and center

in God, and say, "All my fountains are in You!" Psalm 87:7

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/thomas-brooks/apt-to-hang-and-rest-upon-creature-props/
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