xxii. 18. _He will surely violently turn and toss thee like
a ball into a large country._
Such was the prophet's message to a haughty statesman who prided
himself on his power. Learn from it--1. +The ease with which God
effects His judgments.+ There are many things we wish to do which
require great preparations and extensive machinery; but to toss a
ball from the hand is an easy matter, mere child's play. He who takes
up the isles as a very little thing, performs all His works with an
ease which cannot be baffled or disturbed. 2. +The utter uselessness
of any resistance to the Divine judgments.+ As surely as a ball must
follow the line of projection, so surely must we go whither the
judgments of God carry us when His set time to visit us is come
(H. E. I., 2269, 4960). 3. +The awfulness of falling into the hands
of the living God.+--_William Manning._