Come, my people, enter your chambers,
And shut your doors behind you;
Hide yourself, as it were, for a little while,
Until the plague is past (Isaiah 26:20).
This was Isaiah’s call to God’s people to shelter in place
while God rained judgment on the City of Man. “Hide yourself…until the
plague is past,” a call that’s remarkably apropos for our day.
I think of another call: Jesus’ invitation to withdraw from
the mad, mad, mad, mad world around us and within us, at any time and
for any reason, and enter into that quiet chamber in our hearts that
Jesus called our “closet”—to shut the door behind us and bide a wee with
him (Matthew 6:6).
David Roper
5.26.20
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