7. The delightful contrast affords
another overwhelming reason why we should be steadfast, unmovable, not carried
away with fear, or led to adopt carnal expedients in order to avoid trial. It
is not only the Lord’s office to defend righteousness, but his nature to love
it. He would deny himself if he did not defend the just; fear not, then, the
end of all your trials, but “be just, and fear not.” God approves, and, if men oppose,
what matters it? He delights in the upright. He sees his own image in them, an
image of his own fashioning. Shall we dare to put up hand to iniquity in order
to escape affliction? Let us keep to that fair path of right along which
Jehovah’s smile shall light us.
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