Don't Vex Your Mind

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The main thing that draws all of us to Puritan theology is our conviction about the Doctrines of Grace. And being as vocal as we are about the sovereignty of God, we more than others should not cause our minds to be distressed about earthly circumstances.

Obadiah Sedgwick gives us a good reason not to vex our hearts and minds.

"If things do befall us when we have vexed ourselves into the possession of them, yet now they are mingled and brackish; they are not so clear and sweet...It will not at all have the relish of a mercy until we have repented of our former disturbance. He who is impatient until he has a good is usually unthankful when he receives it; for he knows not how to depend on God has yet to learn how to bless God. Neither can I expect a contentment of mind in the fruition, where there has been an unbelieving turbulence in the expectation...When the Israelites desired, by any means, to have a king, they had him, but it was in wrath...When God must answer, not our needs but our desires; not our wants but our pleasures, we usually find that such mercies prove to be hard crosses and troubles; and we scarce taste a delight before we break out into new complaints, so that by our vexing we have procured to ourselves a further burden." Obadiah Sedgwick, Providence Handled Practically
 
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