To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.
Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.
The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.
Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared.
Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.
We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.