Joshua 18

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XVIII.—It is highly becoming when a serious regard to the worship of Christ and the church of God is intermingled with our most engaging earthly concerns: and it is dangerous to form families or kingdoms without the true worship of God. But what a blessing is it for a church or nation when the Lord is a wall of fire round about them, and the glory in the midst of them! What mercies then are ours! - We have his ordinances, not merely in the midst of our land, but near at hand, in every corner of it; and safely nay we, in the midst of enemies, go about the Lord’s work. Let us beware then how we are unconcerned about promised enjoyments, or commanded duties lest the sweets of present comforts, or the difficulties in our way to the Canaan above, should weaken our desire, or hinder our attempts, to obtain it. Blessed be God that though the enjoyment of it be not equally soon obtained, yet it is equally sure to all believers; and that there, as well as here, each is placed in a station answerable to his abilities and powers of enjoyment. **