Homilist Job 5:26 You shall come to your grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn comes in in his season. Eliphaz urges Job to repent of his wickedness, and promises him great good as the consequence. His words suggest — I. THAT OLD AGE WILL HELP TO RELIEVE THE GRAVE OF ITS TERROR. Life to those in old age has lost its genial glow; desire has failed; the limbs have lost their vigour; the appetites their relish; the senses their keenness; the faculties their activity; the heart, most of its friendships, its hopes, its aims. They have outlived their interest in the world; their old friends are in the dust; they are surrounded by strangers; they bow beneath the weight of years, and oftentimes welcome the grave. Yes, apart from religion, there is much in old age to make the grave even attractive. But how few of the human family are allowed to reach the grave in this way. II. THAT SPIRITUAL MATURITY WILL HELP TO RELIEVE THE GRAVE OF ITS TERROR. 1. True religion is a life which grows in this world to a certain maturity. 2. When this maturity is reached in a man, his removal from this world will take place. It ripens in some much sooner than in others. 3. The removal of such from the world will be no terror to them. It will take place under the superintendence of the great Husbandman. This spiritual maturity it is that deprives the grave of its terror. Here then are two helps to relieve for us the terror of the grave. Old age is one. Spiritual maturity of character is the great relieving power. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.WEB: You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season. |
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