| Have we not all had times, when overwhelmed by situations and circumstances that oppress and discourage, we have wished that we could leave all the hard things behind “and be at rest”? David wrote these words at a time when he could say that “my heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. … Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.” But we cannot run away from our griefs and troubles and problems. We cannot “hasten [our] escape from the windy storm and tempest.” There are times, to be sure, when the Lord is pleased to change things, so that the things that hurt us are removed. But most of the time He says to us, “My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.” “A man [the God-Man, our Lord Jesus] shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.” |
