24. I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days. He betook himself to prayer. What better remedy is there for
heart-sickness and depression? We may lawfully ask for recovery from sickness
and may hope to be heard. Good people should not dread death, but they are not
forbidden to love life: for many reasons the person who has the best hope of
heaven may nevertheless think it desirable to continue here a little longer,
for the sake of family, work, the church of God, and even the glory of God
itself. Some read the passage, “Take me
not up,” let me not ascend like disappearing smoke, do not whirl me away like
Elijah in a chariot of fire, for as yet I have only seen half my days, and that
a sorrowful half; give me life till the blustering morning has softened into a
bright afternoon of happier existence. Thy years are throughout all generations. Thou livest, Lord; let me live also. A fullness of existence
is with thee; let me partake therein. Note the contrast between himself pining
and ready to expire, and his God living on in the fullness of strength forever
and ever; this contrast is full of consolatory power to the one whose heart is
stayed upon the Lord. Blessed be his name, he faileth not, and, therefore our
hope will not fail us, neither will we despair for ourselves or for his church.
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