Tuesdays with Thomas Manton

Psalm 119:11 says, I have stored up [KJV ‘hid’] your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

manton2Manton points out: A thing may be hidden two ways, either to conceal it, or else to cherish and keep it. And it is kept in the heart, not the brain, or mind, and memory only, but the heart, the seat of emotions. To hide the word in our hearts, is to understand and remember it, and to be affected to it and with it.

Is God’s Word precious to you? Do you gather it safely in, or leave it scattered about? Do you recall what the virgin Mary did with the Words of the angels? What do you do with the Word?

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Tuesdays with Thomas Manton…

LET ME NOT WANDER. Psalm 119:10 says,

10 With my whole heart I seek you;
let me not wander from your commandments!

Puritan divine Thomas Manton says, manton
“God’s children are a generation of seekers. They find hereafter, but now they seek. Their great business is to be seeking after God, more ample and full communion with Him.” He further warns us, “It is a high piece of spiritual idolatry, to lean upon our own understanding, and think to carry even the ordinary affairs of any day without asking counsel from God, and then His blessing.”

Lord, let me not wander today.
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