Isaiah 33:15-17

W hat a string of rich promises are here, like so many pearls for the believer's neck! What is it to walk righteously, but to walk in Christ, and with Christ? Colossians 2:6. And what is it to despise the gain of oppressions and the like, but, under the sweet influences of grace, to live as becometh the gospel, of Christ: to put off the old man which is corrupt, and to put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness? See the portrait at the full, Ephesians 4:21. And what will be the consequence of this life of faith? He shall dwell on high; in Jesus out of the reach of danger. Being one with Christ, he is saved in Christ. No arrow from the shaft of the enemy shall touch him. No weapon formed against him shall prosper. But these blessings are not all. His place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks. He shall be hid out of sight, out of reach, out of danger, in times of general calamities, when the sinners in Zion are afraid. And though in rocks, and retired corners, yet his bread shall be given him, and his waters shall be sure. Precious promises! And as full and sure, in spiritual things, to the people of God, as in temporals. For though hid from men, his eyes shall see Jesus in his beauty. And he will be to him both the bread of life and the water of life: all he needs in time, and all his blessedness to all eternity. John 6:35.