Gold Nugget 146 - Earthly Sorrows

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      Divine privileges do not save us from earthly sorrows.  Love cannot hold the beloved for ever.  The pair who love much may yet be parted.  This awful grief of widowhood may invade the happiest home.  They who are never divided in love may yet be thrust asunder by “the dark divorce of death.” …

      Sudden death seems to be best for the victim, for it spares all the agonies of a protracted illness, and all the horrors of the act of dying.  But to those who are left it comes as an awful blow!  Still, as such events do occur in the most affectionate and most peaceful households, we should do well to be prepared for them.  The sweet summer garden of to-day may be a waste, howling wilderness to-morrow. …

      Though the mourner is silent, God is not, and his voice whispers peace to all his trusting sons and daughters in their sorrow.

 

The Pulpit Commentary, Ezekiel II p.37, Ezekiel 1:16, (W. F. Adeney)

 

Gold Nugget 146

Earthly Sorrows

 

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