5. They are in trouble as other men. The
prosperous wicked escape the killing toils which afflict the mass of mankind;
they have no need to inquire, “Whence
shall we get bread for our children, or raiment for our little ones?” Ordinary domestic and personal troubles do not appear to molest them. Neither are they plagued like other men. Fierce trials do not arise to assail them.
They are worse than other people, and yet better off. All this is clear to the
eye of faith, which unriddles the riddle; but to the bleared eye of sense it
seems an enigma indeed. They are to have nothing hereafter; let them have what
they can here; they, after all, only possess what is of secondary value, and
their possessing it is meant to teach us to set little store by transient
things. If earthly good were of much value, the Lord would not give so large a
measure of it to those who have least of his love.
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