![]() Some lives have only one word, some several, yet is each an exclamation. The main idea of the text is THE TRANSIENTNESS OF LIFE it has the brevity of a cry. ![]() So life - in some cases three-score years and ten, or four-score years in other cases not sixty, not fifty, not forty years - not thirty or twenty years, or even ten. SOME TALES COME SOONER TO A CLOSE THAN OTHERS. Whatever doubts, troubles, trials, disappointments chequered it, the close of it is peace. The tale of human life is soon told, but how momentous are its issues!Ģ. They die without preparation and without hope. Some tales, whether serious or trifling, have an unhappy termination. THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THE TALE IS ITS CLOSE, AND SO ALSO IT IS WITH LIFE, The interest thickens towards the end.ġ. They are using the means of grace, and growing in weanedness from the world they seek the salvation of others, and prepare themselves for the coming of the Lord. They give an account of godly men who served God in their generation, and died in peace. They occupy their days with business they are industrious, enterprising: but they have no concern about spiritual things.ģ. Other tales are of a grave caste, and turn on the interests of human life but they are altogether worldly in their tone and tendency. Some tales are light and trifling, - merely to amuse and make the reader laugh. Life may be passed as vainly as the time occupied in hearing an idle tale.ġ. Seeing that life imperceptibly passes, IT SHOULD BE THE CARE OF US ALL, THAT IT BE NOT MISSPENT, OR ITS OPPORTUNITIES UNIMPROVED. It is passing away from here like a flower, a vapour. "A tale told." Not inscribed upon marble or brass, not even written in a book, - but just "told." The transitoriness of this tale, however, is not in its influence that is everlasting, every idea will tell on the ages, but in its earthly form of expression. Every act tells out some portion of this tale, and falls upon unnumbered ears.ģ. What observers has the life of every man! Society, devils, angels, God, are all observing, all reading us. A tale implies, if written, readers if oral, listeners. Amongst the many things which the tale of life speaks out are two wonderful things.(1) Man's power of opposing himself, the arrangements of creation, and the will of God.(2) The amazing patience and condescending mercy of God.Ģ. A tale has some meaning is intended to impart some idea to others. Homilist.Assuming this version to give the true idea of the author, we have here three thoughts,ġ. Let us but thus trust in God, confess, and commend him. This psalm is as true for today as for the day when it was written. ![]() Thus does God deal with his faithfully witnessing servants, and for and through them to others. Making him feel that it is all true, and that much more is true. Endorsing the testimony in the mind of him to whom it has been given. He will deliver, exalt, answer, keep near to, honour, satisfy with long life, and reveal to him the fulness of his love.Ģ. We may regard these verses (14-16) as a Divine soliloquy, in which God, well pleased, meditates what he will do, and why, for his servant. Declaring his mind towards his faithful servant. THE DIVINE APPROVAL AND DELIGHT IN BOTH THE MAN AND HIS TESTIMONY. Thus, from his own experience, the man that trusts in God commends him to his fellow man. Forces terrible as the lion and subtle like the adder cannot harm. Still more, they render the man invulnerable (ver. He tells of the angelic ministries through which God thus guards his people they keep and they upbear, so that no hurt shall come. 9.) He made the Lord his Refuge and his Habitation there no evil could come, nor any plague.Ħ. Seeing only, but never experiencing, the awful recompense of the wicked (ver. Thousands falling all around, but God's servant kept unharmed (ver. 6) and sudden death - the sickness that wasteth at noonday.Ĥ. Against open war, when the flight of arrows almost darkened the sky. 5.) Against the midnight attack - the terror by night (cf. As Protector like that of the mother bird over her young like that of shield and buckler to the soldier.ģ. As a sure Deliverer from the hidden foe and from the devouring pestilence.Ģ. 2.) The Lord is his Refuge, Fortress, the Joy of his soul, his God, his constant Confidence. He abides under the shadow of the Almighty.
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