1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him… When in Scotland recently, I went to a very interesting place, the Observatory at Paisley. I there saw an instrument for measuring earthquakes, a seismological register. A block of stone, twenty-four solid feet in depth, was thrust into the ground; down and down it went, standing like an isolated column in the vacuum carefully preserved on every side of it. On the top a delicate instrument was poised, which actually wrote with a pencil a record of the vibrations and oscillations that were taking place in every part of the globe. Said the gentleman in charge, "If an earthquake were to take place in Japan, its motions would be written here as faithfully as though we were on the spot to measure it." "Then what about the rumbles here in Paisley?" said I. "You make noises enough in your streets: would they be registered by your instrument?" "No," was the reply. "We do not trouble about vibrations on the surface. We measure from the depths." That is the way to measure — truth in the inward parts. We do not, measure by a man's profession, but by what comes from the depths of his nature. (R. J. Campbell, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart. |
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