He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
Human affairs are not ruled by blind fortune but by God's judgments in all the changes and chances of this world. Adversity, shipwreck, famine, disease, war, marks His displeasure summoning us to account for our sins; prosperity flows from His grace so He may receive the praise due a merciful Father and impartial Judge.
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Commenting on Psalm 107:1-43
He sent his word and healed them. Man is not healed by medicine alone, but by the word which proceedeth out of the mouth of God is man restored from going down to the grave. A word will do it, a word has done it thousands of times. And delivered them from their destructions. They escape though dangers had surrounded them, dangers many and deadly.
Sin is the root of sickness: fools bring affliction upon themselves through transgression and folly. Those who doted most on perishable meat, when sickness comes, nauseate it; what they took too much of they can take nothing of. The appetite gone, life itself hangs by a thread at death's gate.
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Commenting on Psalm 107:17-22