Being Renewed
The following is an adapted excerpt from A Commentary on the Song of Solomon.
While other pursuits bring weariness and satiety, the Christian life grows more interesting and pleasing. Retirement from business, with an independence and full honors, grows burdensome, though desired and laboured for through a long life. After a degree of success, wealth, and reputation, the soldier becomes weary of his triumphs, and longs for repose. But the man who is filled with the Holy Spirit, and cultivates the habits of contemplation and action excited by grace, will find the service of Jesus more and more delightful; every act of duty exhausts not, but renews his strength; and though the infirmity of the flesh, the dullness creeping through the bodily frame, from age, and ardent desire to enjoy the glory of his Lord, may make him anxious to flee away to the rest in heaven, no weariness with the work of holiness and benevolence is felt; he is sensible that as his outward man perishes, his inward man is renewed day by day, he mounts up on wings as eagles', and never is he more willing to remain at the post of duty, never more active in every good work, than when the time of his departure is at hand.
Meet the author:
George Burrowes
1811–1894
George Burrowes wrote an excellent commentary on the Song of Solomon, which was one of the first two books published by the Banner of Truth. (Thomas Watson’s Body of Divinity was released on the same date.) He graduated from Princeton College in 1832 and received his Doctor of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1835. During his lifetime, Burrowes helped start a college and later a seminary in California. He also served as a pastor and as a seminary professor of Latin, Greek, Hebrew Language and Literature, and Biblical Instruction.