When the power of God first draws us out of our natural state to Christ, it finds us not only impotent, but obstinate; not only unable, but unwilling to come; and yet this power of God prevails against all opposition. Let this engage you to a constant attendance upon the ordinances of God, in which this drawing power of God is sometimes put forth upon the hearts of men. He many times comes in an hour when we think not of Him. It is good therefore to be found in the way of the Spirit. Had that poor man who lay so long at the pool of Bethesda reasoned thus with himself: "So long have I lain here in vain expecting a cure, it is of no purpose to wait longer," and so had been absent at that very time when the angel came down, he had, in all likelihood, carried his disease to the grave with hm. How does thou know but this very Sabbath, this sermon, this prayer, which thou had no heart to attend, may be the sermon and the instrument by which the Lord may do that for thy soul which was never done before.
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