“In quietness and in confidence shall be your
strength”
Isaiah 30:15
A QUIET HEART
It is always weakness to be fretting and
worrying, questioning and mistrusting. What can
we do if we wear ourselves to skin and bone? Can
we gain anything by fearing and fuming? Do we
not unfit ourselves for action, and unhinge our
minds for wise decision? We are sinking by our
struggles when we might float by faith.
Oh, for grace to be quiet! Why run from house to
house to repeat the weary story which makes us
more and more heart-sick as we tell it? Why even
stay at home to cry out in agony because of
wretched forebodings which may never be
fulfilled?
It would be well to keep a quiet tongue, but it
would be far better if we had a quiet heart. Oh,
to be still and know that
Jehovah is God! Oh, for grace to be confident in
God!
The Holy One of Israel must defend and deliver
His own. He cannot run back from His solemn
declarations. We may make sure that every word
of His will stand though the mountains
should depart. He deserves to be confided in;
and if we would display confidence and
consequent quietness, we might be as happy as
the spirits before the throne.
Come, my
soul,
return unto thy rest,
and lean thy head upon the bosom of the
Lord Jesus.
"Lord Dictated
Them"
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