An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Fourthly, Note; If you would have supply in your wants, you must ask it of God.

When you are in want, whither soever you go, if you go not to God, you go to a wrong door: The Ravens tell you whither to go when you are in want; it is not to this or that creature, to this or that means, to this friend or that, but you must go to God for help; and if we have help any where else, and not in God, our help is worse than our distress. Wants are an evil of ⟨p. 304⟩affliction, but the help we get out of wants in any way, with neglect of God, is an evil of sin, therefore cry to God. The Lions are said to seek their meat from God, and here the Ravens are said to cry unto God; the young Lions and the Ravens, will condemn those, who in their distresses do not cry to God the fountain, but run to broken cisterns. It was the sin of that good King Asa, that in his disease he sought not to God, but to the Physicians (2 Chron. 16.12.) not that Asa had cast off prayer to God, or did not at all seek unto him (it cannot be that so good a man as the Scripture reports him, should so much at once forget God and himself) but the meaning is, he was very cold and negligent in calling upon God for help, and over confident of help by his Physicians.

Lastly, consider, God provides for the young Ravens, when the old ones leave them, or put them out of their nest.