Gold Nugget 144 - Days of Memory
In themselves all days may be equally sacred. Nevertheless, a difference of character, history, and associations will divide our days out into very various classes, and will mark some for especial interest. There are days that stand out in history like great promontories along the coast. We must all have lived through days the memory of which is burnt into our souls. There are the red-letter days, days of honour and gladness; and there are the black-letter days of calamity. …
We have no prophetic visions. But there may be days when God has seemed to draw especially near to us. Truth has then been most clear and faith most strong. The memory of such days is a help for the darker seasons of doubt and dreary solitude. …
A diary of sentiments is not always a wholesome production; but a journal of events should be full of instruction. … It is good sometimes to turn aside from the noisy scenes of the present and walk in the dim cloisters of the sweet, sad past, communing with bygone days and musing over the deeds of olden times. Our own rushing, heedless age would be the better for such meditations among the tombs, not to grow melancholy in the thought of death, but to learn wisdom in the lessons of the ages. … We have the whole roll of the world’s history from which to select instances of inspiring lives.
The Pulpit Commentary, Ezekiel II p.35, Ezekiel 24:2, (W. F. Adeney)
See also Romans 14:5
Gold Nugget 144
Days of Memory
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