CONFIDENT CALM OUR STRENGTH

QUIETNESS AND CONFIDENCE OUR STRENGTH      Isaiah 30:15-18

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

  This world has always been a troubled problematic place, at times critically so. Any history buff will tell you that even in the calmest political times there has been and continues to somewhere be crisis one on top of another: A fragile or even false political peace in the best of times.

  And there there’s our personal individual scene. Yesterday a perfect example with its early events to rejoice in and then decades long friend in a horrific collision, outcome yet unknown to me this morning.

  As individuals we have little control or influence of this ongoing turmoil. 

  We do however have available Lord God’s provision of strength with its accompanying courage by and through His provision; evidenced in anxiety displaced by quietness and confidence.

  This provision His is not however automatic, nor is it realized by mantra. It requires our resting in knowledge and acceptance (trust!) of His Sovereignty; Omnipotent; Omniscient; Omnipresent. . . . and the personal application of His Word.

  In the Old Testament record, Job, suffering terrible loss and at the time quite ill, is example of this rest as he declared that though God slay him . . . he would trust Him and be unwavering in maintaining his integrity. (Job 13:15)

  In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul, in wretched circumstance while awaiting certain execution . . . rested confidently in his relationship and fellowship with his Lord, and with qualification declared contentment. (Phil.4:11-13)

  Let us trust our Lord and thereby be strong.

EBB4 (2013)