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April 3

April 3
Sensitive to Warning
Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest
what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a
desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith
the Lord. (2 Kings 22:19)
Many despise warning and perish. Happy is he who trembles at the Word of God. Josiah did so, and
he was spared the sight of the evil which the Lord determined to send upon Judah because of her
great sins. Have you this tenderness? Do you practice this self-humiliation? Then you also shall be
spared in the evil day. God sets a mark upon the men who sigh and cry because of the sin of the
times. The destroying angel is commanded to keep his sword in its sheath till the elect of God is
sheltered: these are best known by their godly fear and their trembling at the Word of the Lord. Are
the times threatening? Does infidelity advance with great strides, and do you dread national
chastisement upon this polluted nation? Well, you may. Yet rest in this promise: "Thou shalt be
gathered into thy grave in peace: and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this
place." Better still, the Lord Himself may come, and then the days of our mourning shall be ended.