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  FORGETTING GOD
  by John Henry Jowett
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Summary: In times of prosperity, we must pray for spiritual sight to
avoid forgetting God and to behold the unseen through the seen.

Topics: "Material Wealth", "Spiritual Focus"
Scripture References: 1 Timothy 6:17

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John Henry Jowett preaches about the danger of forgetting the Lord in
times of prosperity, using the analogy of a castle hidden by summer
foliage to illustrate how material wealth can obscure our eternal
treasure. He emphasizes the importance of maintaining transparency in
our view of material blessings, allowing them to point us towards the
unseen spiritual realities and our treasure in heaven, rather than
becoming distractions that lead us away from God.

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DEUTERONOMY viii. 11-20.

"Beware ... lest when thou hast eaten and art full ... thine heart be

lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God." I was in a little cottage

near Warwick. I said to the good man who lived in it, "Can you see the

castle?" and he replied, "We can see it best in the winter when the
leaves

are off the trees. In the summer time it is apt to be hid!" The summer

bounty hid the castle; the winter barrenness revealed it! And so it is
in

life. In the season of fulness we are prone to be blind to "the house of

many mansions," and we forget the Master of the house, the Lord our God.

Our material wealth hides our eternal treasure.

What, then, shall we do in the days of our prosperity, when all our
trees

are in full leaf? We must pray that material things may never become

opaque, that they may be always transparent, so that through the seen we

may behold the unseen. This is a gift of the Spirit, and it may be ours.

He will anoint our eyes with the eye-salve of grace, and everything will

become to us a symbol of something better, so that even in the midst of

material plenty our hearts will be with our treasure in heaven.
Everything

will be to us "as it were transparent glass."

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/john-henry-jowett/forgetting-god/
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