3. The Lord will strengthenhim upon the bed of languishing. How tender and
sympathizing is this image; how near it brings our God to our infirmities and
sicknesses! It is blessed fainting when one falls upon the Lord’s own bosom,
and is upborne thereby! Grace is the best of restoratives; divine love makes
the soul strong as a giant, even when the aching bones are breaking through the
skin. Thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. Does the Lord turn
bedmaker to his sick children? Here is love indeed. A bed soon grows hard when
the body is weary with tossing to and fro, but grace gives patience, and God’s
smile gives peace, and the bed is made soft because the heart is content. Note
that the Lord will make all his bed, from head to foot. Our Lord Jesus,
though in all respects an inheritor of this promise, for our sakes condescended
to forego the blessing, and died upon a cross and not on a bed; yet even there,
he was after a while upheld and cheered by the Lord his God, so that he died in
triumph.
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