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This history we
read in 1Kings 22.
Abundant riches and honor give large opportunities of doing good,
but they are attended with many snares and temptations. Men do not
know much of the artifices of satan and the deceitfulness of their
own hearts, when they covet riches with the idea of being able to
do good with them.
Jehoshaphat is
safe in his robes, Ahab killed in his amour; for the race is not
to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. We should be cautious
of entangling ourselves in the worldly undertakings of evil men;
and still more we should avoid engaging in their sinful projects.
But, when they call upon him, God can and will bring his faithful
people out of the difficulties and dangers into which they have
sinfully run themselves. He has all hearts in his hand, so that he
easily rescues them.
Blessed is the man that puts his trust in the Lord. |
