Paul tells us that all things which happened to the old Jews happened
for our example. What example can we learn from this chapter?
This, I think, we may learn: Is not the way in which God taught
these Jews the same way in which He teaches many a man--perhaps every
man? Which of us, when we were young, has not had his teaching from
God? The old Catechism which our mothers taught us, was not that a
word from God Himself to us? The voice of conscience, which made us
happy when we had done right, and uneasy and ashamed when we had gone
wrong; was not that a word from God to us? Yes, my friends, those
child's feelings of ours about right and wrong, were none other than
the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God, the Light which
lightens every man who comes into the world. I tell you, every right
thought and wish, every longing to be better than you were, which
ever came into any one of your hearts, came from Him, the Lord Jesus.
It was His word, His voice, His Spirit, speaking to your spirit, just
as really as He spoke to His prophet Ezekiel, of whom we have been
reading. Think of that. Recollect, never, never forget, that all
your good thoughts and feelings are not your own, not your own at
all, but the Lord's; that without His light your hearts are nothing
but darkness, blind ignorance, and blind selfishness, and blind
passions and lusts; that it is He, he Himself, who has been fighting
against the darkness in you all your life long.
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