Gold Nugget 325 - Object of Disregard

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      Men that are wrong and strong will find their advocates; indeed, they find all too many to honour and praise them, both while they live and when they are departed.  But men that are good and weak find none to admire them.  They may start, as Joash apparently did, with fair intentions and blameless desires, but they have no force of character, and being “driven with the wind and tossed,” carried about hither and thither according to the passing breeze, they are the object of disregard, if not of positive contempt.  There is nothing honourable or admirable in them. …

      Such men … may do some good during one half of their life, or at different parts of their life; but the good they then do is counterbalanced by the harm they work during the other half or on other occasions; and no one can say which prevails over the other.  The measure of many a man’s life-influence is a nice sum in spiritual subtraction; and when everything is known it will perhaps be found to be a “negative quantity.” 

      It is a poor and a pitiful thing to see a man first building up and then pulling down; one day working with the people of God and the next associating with the enemies of true and pure religion; subscribing to a Christian charity and attending a demoralizing spectacle; pulling in contrary directions.

      What can such a man do?  What witness can he bear, what work achieve, what contribution bring to the great end we should have in view – the elevation of our kind?

 

The Pulpit Commentary, II Chronicles p. 288, II Chronicles 24:1-2, (W. Clarkson)

 

Gold Nugget 325

Object of Disregard

 

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