Isaiah 27:8 In measure, when it shoots forth, you will debate with it: he stays his rough wind in the day of the east wind. I. SORROWS ARE STRONG FORCES. They act as winds; they are forces before which we bend and bow. II. SORROWS HAVE THEIR APPOINTED TIME. "In the day of the east wind." There are certain winds that blow at particular seasons. Just so sorrows have their appointed times in a man's life. There is a time to mourn. Blessed be God, in the life of Heaven's children, sorrows have their day, their morning, their noon, and their night. They are here, and the day of their real. dance may be long, but every hour of that day tells of the day's approaching end when the trouble will be no more. Now, it occasionally happens that people in trouble say, "This affliction could not have come upon me at a worse time." But that is never true, unless by any wilfulness you bring your own sorrows upon yourselves. If the trouble came at a time when you would not feel it at all, why, the trouble would be useless to you, and you would have to be placed in those circumstances again and again. III. SORROWS ARE GOD'S SERVANTS. "He stayeth His rough wind in the clay of the east wind," just because the winds are His. He holdeth them in His fist so long as He pleases to hold them — and then sendeth them forth from the hollow of His hand when He pleases to send them forth, and calleth them back into His own hand when He pleases to recall them. Just so is it with troubles. (S. Martin.) Parallel Verses KJV: In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. |
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