“ Our lives towards eternity” two remarkable passages in the Psalms, (psalms 8:4,5 and 144:3,4,) which bear a near relation to it. The former is, When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him or the son of man, that thou visitest him Here man is considered as a cipher, a point, compared to immensity. The latter is, Lord, what is man, that thou hast such respect unto him Man is like a thing of nought His time passeth away like a shadow! Here the Psalmist seems to consider the life of man as a moment, a nothing, compared to eternity. Is not the purport of the former, How can He that filleth heaven and earth take knowledge of such an atom as man How is it that he is not utterly lost in the immensity of Gods works Is not the purport of the latter, How can He that inhabiteth eternity stoop to regard the creature of a day, -- one whose life passeth away like a shadow Is not this a thought which has struck many serious minds of our ages?, as well as it did Davids, and created a kind of fear arise from a kind of supposition that God is such an one as ourselves If we consider boundless space, or boundless duration, we shrink into nothing before it. But God is not a man. A day, and million of ages, are the same with him. Therefore, there is the same disproportion between Him and any finite being, as between Him and the creature of a day. Therefore, whenever that thought recurs, whenever we are tempted to fear lest we should be forgotten before the immense, the eternal God, remember that nothing is little or great, that no duration is long or short, before Him. Remember That he presides over every individual as over the universe; and the universe, as over each individual. And above all still He is mindful of us…..Amen !!
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 06:24:32 +0000
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