This you may see in Psalm 107. That Psalm gives many instances of God’s providence, the deliverances by sea, etc., but the foot of the song is, “Oh that men would praise the Lord for…his wonderful works to the children of men.” Now after so many instances, he concludes that the righteous shall see these things and rejoice, extract comfortable thoughts out of all of them. “Whoso is wise…will observe these things,” that is, he will make holy observations out of all these, out of a principle of wisdom he will understand God’s goodness in all and his heart will be raised to thoughts of praise and
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When our heart reflects on and sees the goodness of God and all he has done, our hearts will respond with godly and pleasing thoughts. Our thoughts would be fixed on him instead of this world and the desires of our flesh
