Friday, September 22, 2023

Our Harbor and Hospice

When my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the Rock that is higher than I.
Psalm 61:2

"MOST of us know what it is to be overwhelmed in heart; 
emptied as when a man wipeth a dish and turneth it upside down; 

Discoveries of inward corruption will do this, 
if the Lord permits the great deep of our depravity to become troubled and cast up mire and dirt. 

Disappointments and heart-breaks will do this 
when billow after billow rolls over us, and we are like a broken shell hurled to and fro by the surf. 

Blessed be God,....our God is the harbor of weather-beaten sails, thehospice of forlorn pilgrims. 

His mercy higher than our sins...... If we get under the shelter of this lofty Rock we may defy the hurricane; ...



The wind blows us out to sea, 
the helm answers not to our puny hand; 
Thou, Thou alone canst steer us over the bar between yon sunken rocks, safe into the fair haven." 
Charles Spurgeon