I doubt not but the workings of your own experience have some correspondence with those I have described. You have now been happily led to flee from the wrath to come, and to embrace Christ crucified as all your salvation. But on the retrospect of former years, does it not strike you with amazement that God did not “cut you down as a cumberer of the ground?” that he did not inflict the awful curse which your unceasing provocations had so justly incurred? that he persevered so long in a course of tender forbearance? and, above all, that at last he should fix upon you as a special object of his clemency, and “pluck you as a brand from the burning?” You must ascribe all the change in your condition—the condemnation from which you are rescued, and the blessings to which you are exalted—to the free, unsought, and unmerited love of God in Christ Jesus. O, my friend! let the range of your meditations often run in this direction. It will take eternity itself to unfold the manifold wisdom, and the matchless love of God, in the redemption of your soul; but, O! begin the work at present, and let the beginning and the ending of your reflections and your praise be, “Hear what the Lord hath done for me.” Delight yourself in the Lord. It is, indeed, an interesting employment to think on the glories of his person, the excellences of his character, and the wisdom of all his dispensations, especially in reference to yourself. It will expand your mind with the most sacred delight. It will, unconsciously, cultivate a spirit of prayer and devotion; and in thus holding communion with God, you will experience that “fulness of joy,” which nothing earthly can bestow.