Sept. 15
Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook
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.