The sweetener – Thomas Brooks

(“Hypocrites Detected, Anatomized, Impeached, Arraigned and Condemned” 1650)

Communion with God is . . .
the life of all your graces;
the sweetener of all providences and mercies;
the strengthener of your hearts and hands;
the soul of your comforts;
the crown of your souls.

Nothing can compare with communion with God
to fence you against temptations,
to sweeten all afflictions, and
to make you own God, and stand for God,
and cleave to God in the face of all troubles and oppositions. Communion with God makes bitter things sweet, and massive things light.

A man high in communion with God, is a man too big for temptations to conquer or troubles to subdue! Those who have but little communion with God are usually as soon conquered as tempted as soon vanquished as assaulted.