The best way to have our will satisfied is to be godly. For to such there is a promise made. Wherein yet these rules are to be observed: _First,_ that our will be agreeable to God's will, the desire must be holy, and seasoned with the Spirit; and not carnal and corrupted by the flesh. _Secondly,_ that sometimes lawful desires are not performed in the same kind, but exchanged for better, and that which doth more good is bestowed instead of them. Moses desired to enter into the land of Canaan; he was denied that, but he entered sooner into the heavenly and blessed rest of everlasting life. _Thirdly,_ that we tarry the Lord's leisure, and depend on His hand, to minister, in fittest time, all those good things which our souls desire, and so we shall not fail to receive them when He seeth that they will be most expedient for us.--_Dod._ _MAIN HOMILETICS OF VERSE_ 25. THE WHIRLWIND AND THE SURE FOUNDATION. +I. The resemblance of a wicked man to a whirlwind.+ 1. _They are both destructive forces._ A whirlwind passes over a district and everything that resists its advance is either overthrown, broken, or made to bend to its fury. Every wicked man in his sphere is a destroyer of human happiness and of moral life, but the image is especially applicable to tyrants who have been destroyers of the lives of thousands of their fellow-creatures, and have ruined the happiness of thousands more in their unscrupulous onward march for the attainment of their own selfish ends. Isaiah describes such a one when he says, "Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof?" (chap. xiv. 16, 17). 2. _They often burst forth with sudden fury, and seem beyond the control of ordinary laws and methods of operation._ A whirlwind often descends upon a peaceful valley without any warning, and its fury is the more terrible by reason of its suddenness, and because of the impossibility of foretelling its course and where it will fall in its most destructive power. So a wicked man is a lawless man, he is not guided by principle but by passion and impulse, none of his fellow-creatures can foretell what will be his next act of violence, or who will be the next victims of his selfish ambition. It is this lawless, uncontrollable destructiveness which makes both the moral and the physical whirlwind the terror of the human race, and leads men instinctively to avoid them if possible. 3. _The triumph of both is short._ How soon nature rights herself after the passage of a whirlwind. She covers the broken rocks with verdure, the trees put forth branches clothed with fresh leaves, others grow up in the places of those which were uprooted, grass and corn spring again, and all looks lovely as before the visitation. The whirlwind "passeth," and so does the wicked man. It is soon written of him that he is "no more," and men who have trembled at his name take heart, and nations