Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 17:17 - 17:17
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Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 17:17 - 17:17
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Jer_17:17
Be not a terror unto me: Thou art my hope in the day of evil.
Divine wrath an object of fear
I. The petition.
1. God’s majesty is in itself an object of fear and dread (Heb_12:21; Isa_6:5; Hab_3:16; Hos_3:5).
2. Divine chastisements are to be feared (Jer_10:24; Psa_6:1; Job_9:34).
3. God’s wrath is still more dreadful.
4. The prophet prays for support and comfort in the time of trial.
II. The expression of confidence.
1. The grace exercised is hope.
(1) God is the object of His people’s hope (Psa_71:5; Psa_78:5).
(2) God is the end of their hope. They need no more (Psa_16:11; Psa_17:15).
2. The time when this grace is exercised. “Day of evil.”
(1) Sin and sorrow make every day an evil day; stiff let us hope (Psa_62:8; Psa_71:14).
(2) Yet there are peculiar days of evil. National calamity; reverses in business; disappointments; affliction; old age (Psa_73:26; 2Ti_1:12).
Learn--
1. That hopes and fears are blended together in the experience of the godly (Psa_147:11).
2. If God is sometimes a terror to His own people, how much more to the wicked? (B. Beddome, M. A.)