Charles Spurgeon Commentary Hosea 14:7

"They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive [as] the grain, and blossom as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon." — Hosea 14:7 (ASV)

They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

When God blesses men, he also blesses those around them.

Your children, your servants, your neighbors, shall all be the better if the grace of God comes to you. So may it be!

Those who dwell under His shadow shall return;

Your children, your friends, all those who live in your house, shall be better for your repentance and return to God. They test you now, but when you have stopped testing God, they will stop testing you.

Among a man's own children, there are often those who remind him of his own sin against God. Do you wonder that Jacob had so much trial with his sons when you remember what kind of man he was? Are you surprised that David's latter days were so full of trouble when you remember his great sin?

Ah! But if the Lord restores, revives, and refreshes you, your household also shall be blessed: Those who dwell under His shadow shall return;

They shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

Your household shall have such a blessedness about them that observers shall say of you and yours, They are a seed that the Lord hath blest. The Lord has a most gracious way of making families very choice and select, and full of comfort and peace, when those families walk in his fear.

But when there is sin in the head of the household, there comes disorder in the family, the departure of the divine blessing, and all goes awry.

They that dwell under his shadow shall return;—

His family, his work-people, his neighbours, who wandered from the Lord because he wandered, will benefit from his holy influence. His restoration will be a benediction to them: They that dwell under his shadow shall return;—

They shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

All good things come to a man when God comes to him, and he comes to God. Get right with God, and you will get right with all things around you, and you will be the means of helping to put other people right.

Those who dwell under His shadow shall return:

His children, His servants, His congregation shall be blessed by His gracious influence. As the Upas tree drops deadly poison, so the tree of grace in a Christian drops living drops to fall on dead souls.

They shall revive as the corn,

Which suddenly springs up in the East after rain falls.

And grow as the vine:

The branches shall in their turn become fruitful.

The scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

Our families and households should be so well-ordered that, not only we ourselves personally, but all in our household, should have a heavenly influence, a blessed savour upon all around us.