Psalm 10:13 Why does the wicked scorn God? he has said in his heart, You will not require it. The wicked contemn God. Why? "Because they say He will not require it." Ah! They forget that it is as true of God's threatenings as of His promises,, that although He delays He does not deny them. A reprieve is not a pardon. It defers the execution, but does not necessarily cancel the sentence. And how many men in business, hard pressed for money and tottering on the edge of bankruptcy, have known too well that the bill which they had got the money lender to renew was not thereby paid; that, however often renewed, it has still to be paid, and that the oftener, indeed, it is renewed with interest added to the capital the debt but grows the larger, the payment the heavier. Just so will it be with you if you persist in rejecting the Saviour. Every day of mercy here will but aggravate the misery of hereafter, and the reckoning, by being long of coming, will be the more terrible when it comes — as that storm roars with the loudest thunder which has been the longest gathering. ( T. Guthrie.) Parallel Verses KJV: Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.WEB: Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, "God won't call me into account?" |
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