9. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath. Justice shortened the days of rebellious Israel; each halting place
became a graveyard; they marked their march by the tombs they left behind them.
Because of the penal sentence their days were dried up, and their lives wasted
away. We spend our years as a tale that is told. Not their days only,
but their years flew by them, rapid and idle as a gossip’s story. Sin
had cast a shadow over all things, and made the lives of the dying wanderers
both vain and brief. The first sentence is not intended for believers to quote,
as though it applied to themselves, for our days are all passed amid the
lovingkindness of the Lord. Neither is the life of gracious people
unsubstantial as a story-teller’s tale; they live in Jesus, they have the
divine Spirit within them; the simile only holds good if we consider that our
lives are illustrations of heavenly goodness, parables of divine wisdom. Happy
are we whose lives are such tales.
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