2 Kings 25:27-30

It is hardly possible to read the wonderful change in the circumstances of Jehoiachin, who, after so long a period as thirty-seven years lying in a prison, is brought forth to liberty, and to the king's table, without having our minds led out in the contemplation, how wonderful the changes sometimes are in human life. But oh! what a change is that in grace, when from the prison of death and sin, the soul is brought forth to the light and liberty of the gospel. When Jesus opens the door in conversion, and calls forth the captives of Satan from the prison-house! When by the blood of his Covenant, Jehovah sends forth his prisoners of hope from the pit in which is no water. Zechariah 9:11. And Reader! carry on the idea, and think if it be possible, what everlasting freedom that will be, when death itself shall, at the voice of Jesus, give up his dead, and all the children of Jesus shall sit down at his table, to go out no more! Precious thought! may it warm my heart amidst all the changeable events in the providences of my God and Saviour, during the whole of this life, and amidst the revolutions of all things here below: may it be the portion of both Writer and Reader to live on an unchangeable God in Christ Jesus, who is now the peace of his people, and will be their glory forevermore!