Apt to hang and rest upon creature props - Thomas Brooks

(“A Believer’s Last Day, His Best Day”)

God sometimes strips His people of their dearest mercies, that He may win them to a more complete and full dependence upon His blessed self. Man is a creature apt to hang and rest upon creature props. “Look to my right and see;” says the psalmist, “no one is concerned for me. I have no refuge; no one cares for my life.” Psalm 142:4. Well, what does he do, now that all props fail him? Why, now he sweetly leans upon God “I cry to You, O Lord; I say You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.” verse 5. Men will hold upon one prop, and if God cuts off that then they will catch hold on another, etc., until God cuts off all their props and then they will come and rest and center in God, and say, “All my fountains are in You!” Psalm 87:7