Isaiah 32:2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place… Who is the rock-like man? 1. He is always a man of great strength of will. A purely natural quality? Yes; but one which is nourished on prayer and striving. 2. Another virtue of the rock-man is moral courage. He dares to do right when right-doing is dangerous, when it carries with it probabilities of loss and suffering. 3. But that which adds the crowning value to the true moral hero is that he is always a man of faith, i.e. the unseen is real to him. He has many ways of realising the unseen, differing according to the age in which he lives, the influences which have moulded him, the manner and form in which the Divine revelation has come to him; but this one thing is of the essence of his life, whether he be a Socrates, a Marcus Aurelius, a St. Bernard, a Dante, or a Martin Luther-that he shall have felt and known that "man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth," that "man doth not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." (W. B. Dalby.) Parallel Verses KJV: And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. |
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