Weariness
"The King and all the people came weary , and refreshed themselves there" . 2 Samuel 16:14.
A great weariness often falls on our souls . We are wearied because of the greatness of our way, and inclined to say that there is no hope . Memory tires us ,perpetually casting up the record of past unfaithfulness and transgressions . The bitter way of the natural consequences of sin is toilsome and difficult to the feet . We faint before the averted eye of former friends and the pitiless criticism of foes . Longings for a vanished past , for life and love , for purity and peace , grind heavily in the soul . Our King has known something of human weariness , though not from all the sources that cause it in his subjects . But amidst our weariness the voice of God may be heard saying , "This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest, and this is the refreshing ," There is rest for weary souls beneath the shadow of the cross , in the sight of which the burden rolls away . There is rest and refreshment as we sit in the banqueting house of Christ's manifested and realised affection . There is refreshment as we eat of his flesh and drink of his blood ; as we yield our will to his ; as we sit with Him in heavenly places . We assuredly find Him to be a "hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place , and the shadow of a great rock in a weary land ."(Isaiah 32 . 2)
There is no hill Difficulty without its arbour ; no desert without its oasis ; no sultry heat without its shadow of a great rock ; no weariness without its pillow ; no intolerable sorrow without its solace ; no weariness without its refreshment ; no failure of man without a very present help in God .
A great weariness often falls on our souls . We are wearied because of the greatness of our way, and inclined to say that there is no hope . Memory tires us ,perpetually casting up the record of past unfaithfulness and transgressions . The bitter way of the natural consequences of sin is toilsome and difficult to the feet . We faint before the averted eye of former friends and the pitiless criticism of foes . Longings for a vanished past , for life and love , for purity and peace , grind heavily in the soul . Our King has known something of human weariness , though not from all the sources that cause it in his subjects . But amidst our weariness the voice of God may be heard saying , "This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest, and this is the refreshing ," There is rest for weary souls beneath the shadow of the cross , in the sight of which the burden rolls away . There is rest and refreshment as we sit in the banqueting house of Christ's manifested and realised affection . There is refreshment as we eat of his flesh and drink of his blood ; as we yield our will to his ; as we sit with Him in heavenly places . We assuredly find Him to be a "hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place , and the shadow of a great rock in a weary land ."(Isaiah 32 . 2)
There is no hill Difficulty without its arbour ; no desert without its oasis ; no sultry heat without its shadow of a great rock ; no weariness without its pillow ; no intolerable sorrow without its solace ; no weariness without its refreshment ; no failure of man without a very present help in God .
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