Natural Tendencies to Dissolution
H. Drummond. Job 19:25-27 For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day on the earth:… There is in every living organism a law of death. We are wont to imagine that Nature is full of life. In reality it is full of death. One cannot say it is natural for a plant to live. Examine its nature fully, and you have to admit that its natural tendency is to die. It is kept from dying by a mere temporary endowment, which gives it an ephemeral dominion over the elements — gives it power to utilise for a brief span the rain, the sunshine, and the air. Withdraw this temporary endowment for a moment and its true nature is revealed. Instead of overcoming Nature it is overcome. The very things which appeared to minister to its growth and beauty, now turn against it and make it decay and die. The sun which warmed it withers it; the air and rain which nourished it rot it. It is the very forces which we associate with life which, when their true nature appears, are discovered to be really the ministers of death. (H. Drummond.) Parallel Verses KJV: For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: WEB: But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.