Sunny Pisgah

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In days of increasing gloom and perplexity like the present, the soul is more sent to the sure hiding place of safety—to the sunny Pisgah heights (Deut. 34:11And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, (Deuteronomy 34:1)) of hope and observation. There it can meditate on the strength of those foundations which God has put under our feet and know the intimacy of that communion into which He has even now introduced our hearts and the brightness of those prospects which He has set before our eyes.
And is He our object? The heart well knows the power of that which is its object. Do we make the Lord Jesus such? Do we find anything of that sickness of hope of which we read in Proverbs 13:1212Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. (Proverbs 13:12)? Are we able to say, “When He giveth quietness, who then can make trouble?” (Job 34:2929When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only: (Job 34:29)).