Joy Under Christ’s Shadow
By M’Cheyne
Some people are afraid of anything like joy in religion. They have none themselves, and they do not love to see it in others. Their religion is something like the stars—very high, and very clear, but very cold. When they see tears of anxiety, or tears of joy, they cry out, Enthusiasm! Well, then, to the law and to the testimony. “I sat down under his shadow with great delight.” Is this enthusiasm? O Lord, evermore give us this enthusiasm! If it be really in sitting under the shadow of Christ, let there be no bounds to your joy.—Oh! if God would but open your eyes, and give you simple, child-like faith, to sit under his shadow, then would songs of joy rise from our dwellings.—M’Cheyne.