Note, 1. There are many that do not know when they are well off, but
are uneasy with their present condition, and given to change. God, in
his providence, has appointed them a place fit for them and has made it
comfortable to them; but they affect unsettledness; they love to
wander; they are glad of a pretence to go abroad, and do not care for
staying long at a place; they needlessly absent themselves from their
own work and care, and meddle with that which belongs not to them. 2.
Those that thus desert the post assigned to them are like a bird that
wanders from her nest. It is an instance of their folly; they are like
a silly bird; they are always wavering, like the wandering bird that
hops from bough to bough and rests nowhere. It is unsafe; the bird that
wanders is exposed; a man's place is his castle; he that quits it makes
himself an easy prey to the fowler. When the bird wanders from her nest
the eggs and young ones there are neglected. Those that love to be
abroad leave their work at home undone. Let every man therefore, in the
calling wherein he is called, therein abide, therein abide with God.