Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith

December 12
A Quiet Heart

In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength - Isaiah 30:15

It is always weakness to be fretting and worrying, questioning and mis-trusting. 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.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon