Remembering God in Our Pleasures
WE think of God chiefly when we are sorrowful. It would be well for us, and more profitable, perhaps, to remember Him in our pleasures, when we meet success, or feel in full strength, or press our children to our breasts, or when the rejoicing sunshine doth gladden us. We are more familiar with supplication than with thanksgiving, and that from ingratitude, and not because our unprovisioned wants are the more numerous. Every omitted thanksgiving detracts from our faith, and from its supporting power; and contributes also to render our communion with God a monotony of complaint and petition, a gloomy wearing of heaven, and ourselves with our selfish prayers.