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the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Nicoll, William R. "Commentary on Deuteronomy 26". "Sermon Bible Commentary". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/sbc/deuteronomy-26.html.
Nicoll, William R. "Commentary on Deuteronomy 26". "Sermon Bible Commentary". https://www.studylight.org/
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Verse 11
Deuteronomy 26:11
It is our duty to give unstinted welcome to every visit of enjoyment with which we may be favoured. We frequently allow streams of refreshment or exhilaration to run past us without dipping into or tasting them; we blunderingly overlook many a cup of soothing and pleasing that is offered to us as we go trudging by. We are slow to discover and seize our golden chances, and hardly know how to make the most of them. At times we are afraid, it would seem, pausing now and then to squeeze a drop or two of severe or melancholy reflection into the goblet, as if there might be sin in having it too rich and sweet. The angel descending to solace us in our Gethsemane with a brief pleasant thrill, with a brief glimpse and gust of pleasure, flashes by under the sombre, wailing olives in vain, is allowed to vanish unharboured and unutilised.
I. Never turn, in your bitterness of spirit, from any ministry of temporal enjoyment that may intervene; never be so wedded to your woes, so shut up and sunk down in them, that you cannot issue forth to accept such ministry. For, remember, we want to be made joyful for our education quite as much as we need to be tried and troubled. To laugh, to luxuriate, to ripple and glow with delight, at times is just as essential for us, as it is at times to weep and suffer.
II. At times some of us may have had the feeling that there is so much misery in the world that it is hardly right to ignore and forget it for a moment in rejoicing. But let us reflect that, since God is our Father and we His children, we are justified in losing sight of trouble for a time when He gives us a joy to taste. Being only a child, however I must feel about His world, and share in His travail concerning it, I need not be afraid at intervals to cast the entire load upon Him and let Him carry it alone. Souls must turn aside at times to bask in what sunshine they can find, and be mellowed, and warmed, and rosied with it, in order to be of service in the darkness and to help to soften and relieve.
S. A. Tipple, Echoes of Spoken Words, p. 239.
References: Deuteronomy 28:1 . F. W. Farrar, Ephphatha, Sermons , p. 289. Deuteronomy 28:6 . J. P. Gledstone, Christian World Pulpit, vol. xviii., p. 168.