Isaiah 26:20-21 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment… I. BEFORE OR IN TIMES OF TROUBLE IT IS WELL TO DRAW NEAR TO GOD. As the hen gives her peculiar "cluck" when the hawk is in the air, to bid her chicks come and hide under her wings, so does God here give a gentle, loving note of alarm, and a gracious call of invitation. We should come — 1. To spread our case before God. 2. To consider His mind about such a case. 3. To make sure of the greatest matters. The world may come and take away many of our external and temporary comforts, but we have a treasure that it never gave us, and cannot take away from us. 4. Having made sure of the great things, you may leave all the little things with God. II. IT IS WISE TO ENTER INTO THE CHAMBERS OF SECURITY WHICH GOD HAS PROVIDED FOR US. 1. The store chamber of Divine power. 2. The council chamber of Divine wisdom. 3. The drawing room of Divine love. 4. The muniment room of Divine faithfulness. 5. The strong room of Divine immutability. 6. The best chamber of Divine salvation. III. WHEN WE ENTER THOSE CHAMBERS IT IS NECESSARY TO SHUT THE DOOR. 1. To shut out all doubt. 2. To shut ourselves in with God. IV. IT IS DELIGHTFUL TO THINK THAT TROUBLE WILL NOT LAST LONG. "A little moment." ( C. H. Spurgeon) Parallel Verses KJV: Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. |
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