Confiding nearness to God brings quiet rest. See how confidence in God stills and quiets the soul.
The very exercise of communion with Him brings peace and rest, inasmuch as all things are then possessed which we can desire. There is a still fruition which nothing can equal and nothing destroy.
Trust in God brings rest from our own evil consciences. It brings rest from our own plans and purposes.
Isaiah - Bible Gateway
Trust gives insight into the meaning of all this else unintelligible world. It brings the calming and subduing of desires, which in their eagerness torture, in their fruition trouble, and in their disappointment madden. It brings the gathering in of ourselves from all the disturbing diffusion of ourselves through earthly trifles. Notice what this rest is not. It does not mean the absence of causes of disturbance.
It does not mean the abnegation of forethought.
It does not mean an indolent passiveness. Notice the duty of being thus quiet and resting. How much we fail in this respect. We have faith, but there seems some obstruction which stops it from flowing refreshingly through our lives. We are bound to seek for its increased continuity and power in our hearts and lives. Confidence and rest in God bring safety and strength. That is true in the lowest sense of 'saved,' and not less true in the highest.
The condition of all our salvation from temporal as well as spiritual evils lies thus in the same thing -- that we trust God.
In Quietness and Confidence
No harm comes to us when we trust, because then God is with us, and works for us, and cares for us. So all departments of life are bound together by the one law. I have to be able to withdraw now from the wife chapter of my life and retire. Usually a person retires because they choose to retire, but I did not choose to retire from wifehood.
That is a difficult thing for me to do after being a wife for two thirds of my entire life. Hmmmm…an attitude is something that I decide in my mind. It is something that I feel. It is a personal decision that I make. I have to decide to have an attitude of rest.
I will be victorious in widowhood. What does that mean?
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I do not begin to know how to be victorious in widowhood. It is a place of new beginnings.
- Isaiah NKJV - For thus says the Lord God, the Holy - Bible Gateway.
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Just the sound of it evokes peace. You can have rest. You can be strong by being quiet and by trusting me. But you don't want that.
In sitting still and rest shall ye be saved, In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength; And ye would not. American Standard Version For thus said the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.
And ye would not: Brenton Septuagint Translation Thus saith the Lord, the Holy Lord of Israel; When thou shalt turn and mourn, then thou shalt be saved; and thou shalt know where thou wast, when thou didst trust in vanities: