"The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot."-Genesis 8:9

Reader, can you find rest apart from the ark, Christ Jesus? Then be
assured that your religion is vain. Are you satisfied with anything short
of a conscious knowledge of your union and interest in Christ? Then woe
unto you. If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction
in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false. If your
soul can stretch herself at rest, and find the bed long enough, and the
coverlet broad enough to cover her in the chambers of sin, then you are
a hypocrite, and far enough from any right thoughts of Christ or
perception of His preciousness. But if, on the other hand, you feel that if
you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a
punishment of itself; and that if you could have the whole world, and abide in
it for ever, it would be quite enough misery not to be parted from it;
for your God-your God-is what your soul craves after; then be of good
courage, thou art a child of God. With all thy sins and imperfecti!
ons, take this to thy comfort: if thy soul has no rest in sin, thou
are not as the sinner is! If thou art still crying after and craving
after something better, Christ has not forgotten thee, for thou hast not
quite forgotten Him. The believer cannot do without his Lord; words are
inadequate to express his thoughts of Him. We cannot live on the sands
of the wilderness, we want the manna which drops from on high; our skin
bottles of creature confidence cannot yield us a drop of moisture, but
we drink of the rock which follows us, and that rock is Christ. When
you feed on Him your soul can sing, "He hath satisfied my mouth with good
things, so that my youth is renewed like the eagle's," but if you have
Him not, your bursting wine vat and well-filled barn can give you no
sort of satisfaction: rather lament over them in the words of wisdom,
"Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!"