Ezekiel 24:15-27 Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying,… I. OTHER SORROWS MAY HAVE NO EVIL, BUT EVEN GOOD IN THEM; THIS IS ESSENTIALLY AND ETERNALLY EVIL. In a bereavement, in a national calamity, as also in bodily sufferings and many social griefs, it is manifest there may be no moral wrong. There may, indeed, be the highest moral good. But sin is, in its essence, in its indulgence, in its outcome, utterly evil, an object of nothing else than commiseration, loathing, and hatred. II. OTHER SORROWS ARE REMEDIABLE; THIS LEADS TO DESTRUCTION. III. OTHER SORROWS MAY COME DIRECT FROM GOD; THIS IS EVER IN DIRECT ANTAGONISM TO HIM. IV. OTHER SORROWS HAVE TO DO WITH MEN IN THEIR RELATION TO OTHERS; THIS WITH HIS OWN INNER BEING AND HIS RELATION TO GOD. Conclusion — 1. Rightly weigh your own sorrows. 2. Rightly deal with the world's sorrows. Pity their poverty, heal their sickness, but most of all grieve for and contend with their sin. 3. Rightly value the Saviour's mission. (Urijah R. Thomas.) Parallel Verses KJV: Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
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