Directions for Daily Communion with God (continued)
Secondly, Let me use some motives to persuade you, thus to live a life of communion with God, by waiting on him all the day.
1. Consider, the eye of God is always upon you. When we are with our superiors, and observe them to look upon us, that engageth us to look upon them; and shall we not then look up to God, whose eyes always behold, and whose eye-lids try the children of men.
He sees all the motions of our hearts, and sees with pleasure the motions of our hearts towards him, which should engage us to set him always before us.
The servant, though he be careless at other times, yet when he is under his master's eye, will wait in his place, and keep close to his business; we need no more to engage us to diligence, than to do our work with eyeservice while our master looks on, and because he doth so, for then we shall never look off.
2. The God you are to wait on, is one with whom you have to do, HEB 4:13. Hebrews 4:13 (KJV) All things, even the thoughts and intents of the heart, are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do; proV on hmin logoV, (Lit., "To whom we must give an account") with whom we have business, or word, who hath something to say to us, and to whom we have something to say; or as some read it, to whom for us there is an account; there is a reckoning, a running account between us and him: And we must every one of us shortly give account of ourselves to him, and of every thing done in the body, and therefore are concerned to wait on him; that all may be made even daily between us and him in the blood of Christ, which balanceth the account. Did we consider how much we have to do with God every day, we would be more diligent and constant in our attendance on him.
3. The God we are to wait upon, continually waits to be gracious to us; he is always doing us good, prevents us with the blessings of his goodness, daily loads us with his benefits, and slips no opportunity of shewing his care of us when we are in danger; his bounty to us when we are in want; and his tenderness for us when we are in sorrow. His good providence