It is ill when it shows itself in a perpetual fault-finding with all that Providence appoints, in always grumbling that we are left out in the cold as if in every distribution of Divine love we came in for the last portion and the least share and were doomed to be the forgotten ones of the family. And I must, in all honesty, grant that this form of the vice has sometimes the appearance of being the most excusable of the whole. "What shall I do," we are apt to say, "in case I should be laid aside and a precarious income should suddenly come to an end? It is not for myself, alone, it is for my wife and numerous family that I am chiefly concerned, how would they be provided for?" Many a man lies awake at night desiring to increase his income, not because he is ambitious to be rich, but because he is haunted with the fear of being poor. Gifted, perhaps, for the present with competency, he is still scared with dire forebodings, "What will become of my family if I die?" "Or should such-and-such a source of income be dried up, and it is very precarious, what, then, will become of my household? What then?"
I do not know what hinders you, but this I do know, there is a worm somewhere eating out the heart of that fair looking apple. Some private sin that you pamper is destroying your souls! Oh, that you had Grace to give it up and to come in by the strait gate, trusting in Jesus Christ! You say you want to be honest; what should you do? Hesitation and wavering can answer no purpose, but a prompt decision is, in every way, commendable. Such ought the decision of every one of us be, and I earnestly wish that it were so. The righteous shall keep God's way and so Job did, come fair, come foul. When there were others in the road with him and when there were none, he kept His way.
What faith had he? First, he had faith in Jehovah. It was faith then, faith alone, that enabled the Prophet of Sinai to arrive at his decision and to carry it out. Our second point is this, MOSES EXHIBITED A CLEAR DECISION. Oh, that the Spirit of God would work the like in all of us! If you could lay aside your religious profession and begin again, would you still make today the decision which you arrived at when you were young? Oh yes, we can say and do say, We have lifted our hand unto God and we cannot go back. That resolve on the part of Joshua was openly declared. I am not able to see what is the good of a decision, however firm and deep, if it is never asserted!
I could scarcely ask for any of you a better thing than that you should fully know, in your own spirit, the horribleness of sin as far as your mind is capable of bearing the strain. The man does not die by a wound that stabs his reputation, but by a secret weakness within him which eats at the vitals of godliness and leaves the outward surface fair. God save us from declining! He demanded a decision and rightly so. Can either earth or Heaven be quiet while such a matter is in suspense?
We are not to think He does this by Inspiration, or of dreams and visions, for if none were sons of God but those who receive these, surely many of the very best of the Divine Family would lose their title to sonship! God grant that Prayer Meetings may begin to be better attended, that family prayer may be more regarded and that private prayer may be more diligently and more spiritually maintained. Those who have been quickened and made to live, and introduced, therefore, into the family of God, have one mark, one never-failing mark. They all have it, and none others ever have it. It was one cold morning and there was no fire to warm himself by, nor for his little family, and this text came again and again, "All things are yours."
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. 
