John Gill on Godliness
Here is John Gill on the disposition of godly people:
The disposition of their souls is God-ward and to His service. They have an understanding of Him, and desire to know more of Him, and follow on to know Him in the use of means. Their thoughts are employed about Him. They think on His name, His nature, and perfections, and loving-kindness, as displayed in Christ. Their affections are set upon Him, and they love Him cordially and sincerely. Their desires are after Him and to the remembrance of His name. They pant after more communion with Him, and the manifestations of His love unto them. They have their spiritual senses exercised upon Him. They see Him with the eyes of their understandings opened, His beauty, His power, and His glory in the sanctuary. They hear His gospel with pleasure. It is a joyful sound unto them, and they can distinguish His voice from that of a stranger. They taste that the Lord is gracious. His Word and the doctrines of it, His fruit and the blessings of His grace are sweet to their taste, these are savory things which their souls love. They handle Christ the Word of life 1and feel the power of His gospel on them. That effectually working in them through the demonstration of the Spirit.
Lord, may I become more like this.
- Gill, John. A Body of Practical Divinity. Paris, AR: The Baptist Standard Bearer, 2000. 697-98. ↩︎
