mill-horse round of service that I am not datona beach girls glad to render? Do I worship
because I think it
is duty, and are my prayers compulsory and
mechanical; or do I worship because my datona beach girls heart goes out to Him? And is
datona beach girls my life calm and sweet because I 'delight in the Lord'?
The next words of my text will help us to datona beach girls answer. 'Thou shalt lift up
thy face datona beach girls unto God.' That datona beach girls is a clear enough metaphor to express frank
confidence of datona beach girls approach to Him. The head datona beach girls hangs down in the
consciousness of demerit and sin. 'Mine iniquities have taken hold
upon me,' wailed the Psalmist, '
datona beach girls so that I am not able to look up.' But
it is
possible for men to go into God's presence with a sense of
peace, and
to hold up their heads before their Judge and look Him in
the eyes and not be afraid. And unless we have that confidence in Him,
not because of our merits, but because datona beach girls of His certain love, there will
be no 'delight in the Lord.' And there will be no such confidence in
Him unless we have 'access with confidence by faith' in that Christ
who datona beach girls has taken away our sins, and prepared the way datona beach girls for us into the
datona beach girls Father's presence, and by whose death and sacrifice, and by it alone,
we sinful men, with datona beach girls open face and uplifted foreheads, can stand to
receive upon our visage the datona beach girls full beams of His light, and datona beach girls expatiate and
be glad therein. Datona beach girls there is no religion worth naming, of which the
inmost characteristic is not delight in God. There is no 'delighting
in God' possible for sinful men unless they