Isaiah 32:18

THE PEACEFUL HABITATION

Isaiah 32:18. And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation [1210]

[1210] See CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST, Isaiah 33:20.

No doubt “the peaceable habitation” is found in moral dispositions created within by Divine grace. Here is, 1st. The Chamber of Holiness. Oh, the sweet tranquillity of a holy life!

2. Here is the hallowed Chamber of Resignation to the Divine will. If the soul is, by Divine grace, able to be still in the midst of temptation, it will also be still in the midst of personal trial.

3. Here is Trust in God’s providence. This is the observatory, and like all observatories, it is high and clear. Other observatories boast that from them you may see the stars in the day-time; but from this, you may see the sun in the night-time.—E. Paxton Hood: Dark Sayings on a Harp, pp. 361–368.