Go, take your fill. By Thomas
Sherman. In your presence is fullness
of joy, in your right hand are eternal pleasures. Psalm 16 11. Your happiness arises from that
object on which your affections are placed, where your treasure
is, there will your heart be also. If your affections are
placed upon a poor, empty creature, or if like Judas, your heart
is so depraved that you desire only the money bag, Or, like
Reuben, you are content, for worldly convenience, to continue
on this side of Jordan, then remember that you are bartering
eternal life for a mere fantasy, and deceiving yourself into irretrievable
and endless ruin. If you will be content with a
breath of honour, a blaze of pleasure, a snare of riches,
or a parcel of vanity, then go, take your fill, but know assuredly
that the end of these things is death. When you shall draw
your last breath, When honour will appear only as air, When
your deathless soul shall be for ever ensnared, Then you will
greatly lament your past conduct, And wish you had never been born. But now, O true Christian, if
you are risen with Christ from the dead, and are looking at
unseen and eternal realities, then for you is prepared a golden
crown, a celestial harp, a glorious mansion, and eternal hallelujahs. You shall enjoy the presence
of God and the Lamb forever and ever. You shall gaze on the incomparable
brightness of God and forever contemplate the wonders of redemption. Lord, if this is my happiness,
then let others enjoy the things of this world. For my part, I
am content to deny myself and take up my cross and follow you.