Jan. 4

Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook

IN CALM REPOSE

   "I will make them to lie down safely." Hos. 2:18

   Yes, the Saints are to have peace. The passage from which this gracious
   word is taken speaks of peace "with the beasts of the field, and with
   the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground." This
   is peace with earthly enemies, with mysterious evils, and with little
   annoyances! Any of these might keep us from lying down, but none of
   them shall do so. The Lord will quite destroy those things which
   threaten His people: "I will break the bow and the sword, and the
   battle out of the earth." Peace will be profound indeed when all the
   instruments of disquiet are broken to pieces.

   With this peace will come rest. "So he giveth his beloved sleep." Fully
   supplied and divinely quieted, believers lie down in calm repose.

   This rest will be a safe one. It is one thing to lie down, but quite
   another "to lie down safely." We are brought to the land of promise,
   the house of the Father, the chamber of love, and the bosom of Christ:
   surely we may now "lie down safely." It is safer for a believer to lie
   down in peace than to sit up and worry.

   "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures." We never rest till the
   Comforter makes us lie down.