Zechariah 10:2. For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners how seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain:
Observe the readiness of man to forsake the great fountain of living waters and to make unto himself broken cisterns which can hold no water. Notice too, that some sort of comfort may, for a time, be derived from a false trust, but it is "comfort in vain." As a dream yields no comfort when a man wakes up, and finds himself to be not rich, as he had vainly dreamed that he was, but miserably poor, so all confidence in the flesh, all reliance upon anything except the almighty arm of God, even if it should yield us temporary hope and consolation, will only make our grief the greater when its utter failure is discovered.
Zechariah 10:2. Therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
The sheep that belong to Christ’s flock will never find any true shepherd except him who is "the good Shepherd." If, for a time, they should so lose their spiritual wits as to follow strangers, which, indeed is not a natural thing for them to do, for "a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers;"-they will meet with a thousand troubles because they have no shepherd.
Zechariah 10:2. For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners how seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain:
Observe the readiness of man to forsake the great fountain of living waters and to make unto himself broken cisterns which can hold no water. Notice too, that some sort of comfort may, for a time, be derived from a false trust, but it is "comfort in vain." As a dream yields no comfort when a man wakes up, and finds himself to be not rich, as he had vainly dreamed that he was, but miserably poor, so all confidence in the flesh, all reliance upon anything except the almighty arm of God, even if it should yield us temporary hope and consolation, will only make our grief the greater when its utter failure is discovered.
Zechariah 10:2. Therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
The sheep that belong to Christ’s flock will never find any true shepherd except him who is "the good Shepherd." If, for a time, they should so lose their spiritual wits as to follow strangers, which, indeed is not a natural thing for them to do, for "a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers;"-they will meet with a thousand troubles because they have no shepherd.