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Bible reading: 2
Chronicles 36:1-21
The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem came on by degrees. The methods
God takes to call back sinners by his word, by ministers, by
conscience, by providences, are all instances of his compassion
toward them, and his unwillingness that any should perish.
See here what woeful havoc sin makes, and, as we value the comfort
and continuance of our earthly blessings, let us keep that worm
from the root of them.
They had many times ploughed and sowed their land in the seventh
year, when it should have rested, and now it lay unploughed and
unsown for ten times seven years.
God will be no loser in his glory at last, by the disobedience of
men. If they refused to let the land rest, God would make it rest.
What place, O God, shall Your justice spare, as even Jerusalem
perished? If that delight of Yours were cut off for wickedness,
let us not be high-minded, but fear.
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