15. And he gave them their request. Prayer
may be answered in anger and denied in love. That God gives a man his desire is
no proof that he is the object of divine favor; everything depends upon what
that desire is. But sent leanness into their soul. Ah, that but!
It embittered all. The meat was poison to them when it came without a blessing;
whatever it might do in fattening the body, it was poor stuff when it made the
soul lean. If we must know scantiness, may God grant it may not be scantiness
of soul: yet this is a common attendant upon worldly prosperity.
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