Post by Lee on Aug 23, 2014 3:22:46 GMT
This chapter well shows the folly and wickedness of coming to God, as it is often done, with the desire that He will let us do what we want to, instead of coming with the desire to do what He would have us do. All the people came near and solemnly protested that whether good or evil they would do what the Lord should say, but it was a case in which, “with their lips they do honour me, but their heart is far from me.”
Verse 2.—“Pray for us.” There was room for prayer. A handful of people ready to perish, yet too headstrong and stiffnecked to be guided. (Is there not something wrong when we have to ask others to pray for us? Should we not do it ourselves? “Men ought always to pray and not to faint.”)
They called on God to witness to their unfaithfulness. Can we wonder that He did so.
Verse 7.—After ten days, probably to try them, God answers in his own time, not ours.
1896 Christadelphian p 280
Verse 2.—“Pray for us.” There was room for prayer. A handful of people ready to perish, yet too headstrong and stiffnecked to be guided. (Is there not something wrong when we have to ask others to pray for us? Should we not do it ourselves? “Men ought always to pray and not to faint.”)
They called on God to witness to their unfaithfulness. Can we wonder that He did so.
Verse 7.—After ten days, probably to try them, God answers in his own time, not ours.
1896 Christadelphian p 280