| Devotional Hours with the Bible |
Chapter 2 |
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Yet there are many people who find more to interest and amaze them in bits of shells or stones or minerals, or in birds or ants or beetles, than in the gospel. They think the subject of redemption a matter suited only to Sunday-school children, ignorant people, and sick folks, while they find subjects suited to great minds in the fields of the sciences and philosophies. How little earth’s wise people know of the wonderful treasures of wisdom hidden in the gospel!
We are told in a later verse that some of the people mocked. There are always some people who will scoff and ridicule every extraordinary manifestation of God’s grace. When Jesus performed great miracles, they said He was in league with Beelzebub’s power. Festus pronounced St. Paul mad when he saw his great zeal and earnestness in Christ’s service. These scoffing beholders accounted for the wonderful things they saw the disciples doing by saying that they were drunk. The same kinds of scoffing are heard in modern days when a great work of grace is going on anywhere. There are always some who mock.
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