Genesis 13:14-18 And the LORD said to Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now your eyes… 1. Saints who hang loose, and are indifferent for the world, have the best appearance of God. 2. God is not forgetful to comfort His, who are willing to bear injuries from men for His sake. 3. God hath a speech to make His own to understand His mind. So God said to Abram. 4. When creature comforts leave God's servants, usually He comes Himself to them. 5. God singles out souls to whom He speaks comfortably in His promises; a stranger intermeddleth not with their joy. 6. Sensible demonstrations God sometimes affords of future mercies unto His. 7. Large bounds God hath allowed for the typical inheritance of His Church here, which note larger in the heavenly Canaan. 8. God's demonstration of mercies sometimes precedes His donation and infers it (ver. 14). 9. God is free and full in allotting the inheritance of His Church. 10. Jehovah hath what He giveth, therefore He giveth surely; He cannot deceive. 11. God's promise to Abram is fulfilled to his seed, through many generations. 12. God hath His ever in making covenant with His people according to His will; which it concerneth God's covenanted ones to know (ver. 15). (G. Hughes, B. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: |
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