31. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, before they could digest their coveted meat, it turned to their
destruction. The wrath of God came upon them before they could swallow
their first meal of flesh. Short was the pleasure, sudden was the doom. The
festival ended in a funeral. And slew the fattest of them, and smote downthe chosen men of Israel. Perhaps these were the ringleaders in the
lusting; they are first in the punishment. God’s justice has no respect of
persons; the strong and the valiant fall as well as the weak and the mean. What
they ate on earth they digested in hell, as many have done since. How soon they
died! See here the danger of gratified passions; they are the janitors of hell.
When the Lord’s people hunger, God loves them; Lazarus is his beloved, though
he pines upon crumbs; but when he fattens the wicked he abhors them. We must
never dare to judge men’s happiness by their tables; the heart is the place to
look at. The poorest starving believer is more to be envied than the most
full-fleshed of the favorites of the world.
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