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"Why are you cast down, O my soul?"
(from William Bridge, "A Lifting Up for the Downcast")
If you can say, "God is my Father", have you any
reason for your discouragements? Yet how often
are God's own people discouraged and cast down!
"Why are you cast down, O my soul?"
What a mighty, vast difference there is between
a godly man and a wicked upon this account.
A godly man has no reason for his discouragements,
whatever his condition may be.
A wicked man has no reason for his encouragements,
whatever his condition may be.
A godly man is apt to be much discouraged,
but he has no true reason for it.
A wicked man is apt to be encouraged,
but he has no true reason for it.
It is said of the wicked, "God is angry with the
wicked every day." Whatever the day may be,
God is angry with them. Not one day goes over
his head, but God is angry with him; and therefore,
whatever his condition may be, there is no reason
for encouragement.
But as for a godly, gracious man, though his
present condition be ever so sad, and his soul
ever so much cast down, yet he has no reason
to be discouraged, whatever his condition is.
"Why are you cast down, O my soul?"
What a glorious condition are the saints in!
Who would not be in love with this condition!
Who would not be in Christ!
Who would not leave the ways of the wicked!
Who would not be godly!
"Why are you cast down, O my soul?"
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