Malachi 2:17 You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, Wherein have we wearied him? When you say… Times of abounding wickedness have been times of unbelief. Evil hinders the manifestation of God in the world. His laws seem to have no executive force; His righteousness is obscured; His very existence is questioned. see text. This question may be asked — 1. By the righteous in their distress. 2. By the wicked in their fancied security. 3. By the sceptic in his reluctant doubting. 4. This question will be answered by God — (1) To the joy of the righteous; (2) to the confusion of the wicked; (3) to the satisfaction of the honest doubter; (4) to the full vindication of the Divine justice.Faith is needed. The laws of God execute themselves most vividly in the invisible regions of the soul. Men look for God in the destructive hurricane rather than in the stings of conscience; in terrible thunderings rather than in the still small voice. Mercy, too, causes judgment to linger, but in the end every one will receive his sentence according to his deeds. (W. Osborne Lilley.) Parallel Verses KJV: Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment? |
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