Sept. 15
THE SAFEST SHELTER
"And a man shall be as an hiding-place from the wind and a covert
from the tempest." Isa. 32:2
Who this MAN is we all know. Who could He be but the Second Man,
the Lord from Heaven, the Man of sorrows, the Son of Man? What a
hiding-place He has been to His people! He bears the full force of the
wind Himself, and so He shelters those who hide themselves in Him. We
have thus escaped the wrath of God, and we shall thus escape the anger
of men, the cares of this life, and the dread of death. Why do we
stand in the wind when we may so readily and so surely get out of it
by hiding behind our Lord? Let us this day run to Him, and be at
peace.
Often the common wind of trouble rises in its force and becomes a
tempest, sweeping everything before it. Things which looked firm and
stable rock in the blast, and many and great are the falls among our
carnal confidences. Our Lord Jesus, the glorious Man, is a covert
which is never blown down. In Him we mark the tempest sweeping by, but
we ourselves rest in delightful serenity.
This day let us just stow ourselves away in our hiding-place, and
sit and sing under the protection of our Covert. Blessed Jesus!
Blessed Jesus! How we love thee! Well we may, for thou art to us a
shelter in the time of storm.