. Nothing on earth can satisfy
the soul. George Milne, Lessons for the
Christian's Daily Walk, 1859. The eye is never satisfied with
seeing, nor the ear with hearing. Ecclesiastes 1.8 The senses are
but servants to the soul. The soul desires to look, and
sets the eye to see. The soul desires to hear, and
sets the ear to hearken. The soul is never wearied. It
listens to sweet music. and lingers longing still for
more. When had the soul enough of a
sweet flower? When was it ever filled to overflowing
with viewing the masterpieces of nature? Nothing on earth can
satisfy the soul. It leaves its pleasures with
a craving for more. It sighs to increase its satisfactions. It grieves, to think how limited
are all its joys. Oh, there is a longing in the
soul, a restless appetite to see and hear, to grasp, to understand,
a stretching forth of thought, a yearning principle, which spurns
the restrictions of the senses. And yet, such is the tribute
due to sinful human nature. sense, in its feebleness, keeps
down the soul. The soul, with all its energy,
cannot overpower sense. How sad! How humbling the condition
of fallen man! Yet, child of God, you have no
cause to mourn. Gifted by grace with higher faculties,
you have that with which to fill your soul to the full. By faith
you see, hear and taste better things. You see Jesus on the
throne of God. By faith you see the sea of glass
and hear the voice of harpers harping with their harps. You
see heavenly and eternal realities by faith. My soul, why linger
after the things of time, when better sights and better sounds
invite you? Or why lament your straightened
means, with heavenly power so unlimited? Then let your eye
repose on Jesus. The more you look at Him, the
longer will you look. The more you look, the more will
be your power to gaze upon Him. The more you commune with Him,
the sweeter shall you find His company. Speak much to Jesus,
you shall not speak in vain. The name of Jesus shall be to
you as beds of spices and sweet flowers. Canticles 5.13 The whispers
of the Spirit, telling of grace and peace, shall ever and always
refresh your ear. My soul, these pleasures shall
never fail you, not like the music, that was and is not, with
no hand to sweep the chords. not like a feast of yesterday
which is now gone forever, not like the flowers that once were
fragrant and now are fragrant no longer, not like the beautiful
landscape which you have left behind. Your Savior, Friend,
and Comforter is ever with you, now and to all eternity the same.