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Divine verdict is governed by that which is invisible to the vision of our fellows. “Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.” So long as that is right, we need not fear the reproach of men.
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D ecember 17 "We hid as it were our faces from him" —Isa. 53:3.
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BECAUSE He was “a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.” That is ever-the way; men do not want to be troubled with your woes. Laugh, and the world will laugh with you, but do not imagine that it will shed tears because you weep; instead it will turn its back upon you, hide its face from you, and pro nounce you a depresión and a bore. We fail, perhaps, fully to realize how much of the sadness and loneliness of Christ was due to this lack of human sympathy. Even His own Disciples thought more of the position they were to occupy in the Coming kingdom than they did of His declaration of all the tragedy that awaited Him at Jerusalem. The fact that “He was despised and rejected of men” was very largely dqe to His being “a .man of Sorrows” : had He been a successful clown, or a triumphant con queror, the crowd would have been eager for His society, but it had no use for the troubled, weary Rabbi. There is a wealth of comfort in this verse for those of us who have something of the like experience. When the world closes its ears to the recital of bur woes, when even our friends prove cold and unsympathetic, we can turn to One Who understands, because He knows, the sense of loneliness and the pangs of heartache which oppress us; One who will never fail us- in our hour of need; One Whose tender love ^nd loving tenderness will be ample compensation for the indifference and rejection of men. Burdened soul, do not in thy sorrow seek comfort of the worldling! THESE words would have been sad upon any man’s lips, but how utterably sad upon the lips of Solomon, the Great and Glorious King—the very prototype of the King of Glory Himself 1 Favored with all that earth could afford and almost all that Heaven could give; ruling over one of the mightiest Empires of the world; rich beyond the dreams of avarice; privileged to build the Temple of the LORD; yet becoming so weary of it all, so discontented, so blase, as to write across the fair page of life: “Vanity of vanities; all is vanity and vexation of spirit!” The words were undoubtedly indited in those dark, later years of his life when his deceitful heart, and his foreign temptresses had led him astray from his father’s God. They teach us how misuse may make every blessing into a curse; how sorrow is the inevitable harvest of sin. They are sadly eloquent to us of the futility of all earthly things as regards the provision of'happi ness, apart from the blessing of the Divine. They are the utter ance of the despairing pessimism of a heart that has turned the wine of life to gall by its own unfaithfulness. At the same time, they are the reverberation of the Devil’s lie, sounding through a soul that he would fain secure for his own. For Solomon, wise as he was, was wrong in this; all is not vanity and vexation of spirit, save to those who, by their own misdeeds, or their own unbelief, make it so. The beggar Lazarus, lying with all his pov erty and his sores upon him, could have contradicted the King, in his palace and his purple. He could have told him that (hav ing the God of Abraham for his Friend) life, so far from being vanity and vexation of spirit, was vibrant with glory and with joy. For true wealth and true happiness are dependent, not upon possession or position, but upon character. “Go, tell it to Jesus, He knoweth thy grief;. Go, tell it to Jesus, He’ll send thee relief.”.; D ecember 18 “Vanity of vanities; all is vanity." —Eccles. 1:2.
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