Micah 6:9 The LORD's voice cries to the city, and the man of wisdom shall see your name: hear you the rod, and who has appointed it. God conveys instruction to the children of men by His Word, and by His providences. These two methods of instruction mutually aid each other. When both His Word and His providence unite in addressing us, the criminality of inattention is carried to the very highest degree. Yet such inattention is common. I. IT BEHOVES US TO BE ATTENTIVE TO THE DISPENSATIONS OF PROVIDENCE WHICH NOW MAY BE TAKING PLACE. In them God is, as it were, shaking His rod over us. II. POINT OUT SOME LESSONS OF INSTRUCTION. 1. God is teaching us the very great evil and malignity of sin in general. 2. God is now calling upon us to examine our selves, in order to ascertain whether we ourselves, as a nation, or as individuals, have in any measure contributed to bring on these calamities. 3. God is calling us to deep repentance; to examine into the state of our immortal souls, and to prove the genuineness and reality of our religion. It behoves us individually to examine our own hearts, and compare them with the mirror of God's most Holy Word. 4. God is calling upon us to pray for the commencement of that great and glorious day, when the Gospel shall be universally spread over the face of the whole globe, and the "kingdoms of this world shall have become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ." (John Vaughan, LL. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: The LORD'S voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. |
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