Exodus 19:4

[That rest includes victory:] “The LORD gave them rest on every side. . . . The LORD gave all their enemies into their hands.” JOSHUA 21:44

Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our LORD Jesus Christ. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:57

How we have wondered at those events which stirred us up and set us loose from ties of home and friends; and how we have marveled at the ruthlessness of those providences which sent us headlong from our assured places into the uncertainties of what seemed empty space around and beneath us. But now we understand that every experience was in God’s love and for the fulfillment of His high purposes toward us. No matter what happened, we soon saw His form and heard His heartening cry; and never did we grow weary but we immediately found that strong wings were beneath us. And oh, the wonder of it! when God brought us home to our resting-place beside Himself! HENRY W. FROST

Unto Myself, My dear child, I would bring thee! Who like Myself thy sure solace can be? Who can reach down, down so deeply within thee? Give to thy heart such a full sympathy? Mournest thou sore that thy loved ones have failed thee? Failed, sadly failed thy true comfort to be? “Why did they fail” dost thou ask? Let Me whisper— “That thou should’st find thy heart’s comfort in Me.” Unto Myself! Ah, no not unto others, Dearest, or sweetest, or fairest, or best; Only in Me lieth unchanging solace; Only in Me is thy promise of rest! Child of My love, to Myself I would bring thee! Not to some place of most heavenly bliss: Places, like people, may all disappoint thee, Till thou hast learned to drink higher than this. Unto Myself, My dear child, I would bring thee! None like Myself thy full portion can be! While, in My heart, there is hunger and longing That I might find choicest treasure in thee. Unto Myself! To Myself—not My service! Then to most sweetly and certainly prove That I can make thee My channel of blessing, Use thee to shed forth the wealth of My love. J. DANSON SMITH

I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.—In his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.—As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the Lord alone did lead him.

Even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.—This God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

What is this “spacious place”? What can it be but God Himself—the infinite Being through whom all other beings find their source and their end of life? God is indeed a “spacious place.” And it was through humiliation, degradation, and a sense of worthlessness that David was taken to it.

MADAME GUYON