JESUS ~ Hiding Place from the Storm of God's Wrath

"For Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall." -Isaiah 25:4 [KJV]

Who so poor as Jesus's poor? Who so needy as the needy of the Redeemer? The world knoweth them not, because it knew Him not. And as the Master was, so are His servants in this world. But, my soul, observe how sweetly Jesus is all this. A strength to the poor in his distress, by taking all the storm Himself. He is a shadow from the heat, the heat of the wrath of a broken law, which Jesus bore Himself, when He died to expiate the breaches of it. His blood and righteousness cool the heat of sin, and quench all the fiery darts of the wicked: these terrible ones which beat upon a poor sinner like a storm against the wall.  

Moreover, when the showers of wrath shall fall at the last day on the wicked, when that horrible tempest of fire and brimstone, the Psalmist speaks of, shall come down on the ungodly, Jesus will be an hiding-place from the storm, and a covert from the tempest: not a drop can fall on those that are under Him, and sheltered by His blood and righteousness. As the church is now said to sit under His shadow with great delight in this wilderness state, and His fruit is sweet to her taste; so when she is fairly come up out of it, having all along leaned upon her Beloved, and having entered with Him into His glory; there will be both security and delight, everlasting safety and joy.  

Precious Jesus, Thou hast been a strength indeed to my poor soul, and Thou wilt be my portion for ever. Oh give me to see my daily need of Thee, to feel my poverty and weakness; the exercises of persecution, both without and within; that from all the terrors of the law, the alarms of guilt in the conscience, the remains of in-dwelling sin in a body of death, which is virtually all sin—the accusations of Satan, the just judgments of God; in Thee, Thou one glorious ordinance of heaven, precious Lord Jesus, I may behold myself secure in Thee, and continually cry out, in the language of Thy servant the prophet, "Surely shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength; even to Thee do I come; and never shall I be ashamed or confounded, world without end." 

-preacher Robert Hawker (1753-1827 A.D.)

September 11th, THE POOR MAN'S MORNING PORTION 


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