GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 4

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES:

JESUS, YOU…….. WERE BRUISED FOR MY INIQUITIES

JESUS, YOU………..TOOK  MY CHASTISEMENT SO I CAN HAVE PEACE W/THE FATHER

JESUS, YOU…………WERE OPPRESSED AND AFFLICTED

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THE WORD FOR TODAY

Psalm 37:7

“Wait patiently for the Lord!  Wait confidently for him!  Do not fret over the apparent success of a sinner, a man who carries out wicked schemes.”

This is day 2 in the chapter “In Stillness of Soul” in Andrew Murray’s classic book, Abide in Christ.

As often as you seek to understand better the blessed mystery of abiding in Christ, let this be your first thought:  “My soul, only be silent to God:  “for my expectation is from Him.” (Ps 62:5).  Do you  indeed hope to realize the wondrous union with the Heavenly Vine?  Do you know that flesh and blood cannot reveal it to you, but only the Father in heaven? 

“Cease from your own wisdom” (Proverbs 23:4).

You have but to bow in the confession of your own ignorance and helplessness; the Father will delight to give you the teaching of the Holy Spirit.  If only your ears are open, your thoughts brought into subjection, and your heart prepared in silence to wait upon God to hear what He speaks, He will reveal to you His secrets.  One of the first secrets will be the deeper insight into the truth, that as you sink low before Him in nothingness and helplessness, in a silence and a stillness of soul that seeks to catch the faintest whisper of His love, teachings will come to you that you had never heard before because of the rush and noise of your own thoughts and efforts.  You will learn how your great work is to listen and hear and believe what He promises; to watch and wait and see what He does; and then, in faith and worship and obedience, to yield yourself to the working of Him who works in you mightily.

One would think that no message could be more beautiful or welcome than this, that we may rest and be quiet, and that our God will work for us and in us.  Yet, how far this is from being the case!  How slow many are to learn that quietness is blessedness, that quietness is strength, that quietness is the source of the highest activity – the secret of all true abiding in Christ!  Let us try to learn it and to watch against whatever interferes with it.  The dangers that threaten the soul’s rest are not a few.

There is the dissipation of soul that comes from entering needlessly and too deeply into the interests of this world.  Every one of us has his divine calling; and within the circle pointed out by God Himself, interest in our work and its surroundings is a duty.  But even here the Christian needs to exercise watchfulness and sobriety.  Still more do we need a holy temperance in regard to things not absolutely imposed upon us by God. 

If abiding in Christ really is our first aim, let us beware of all needless excitement.  Let us watch even in lawful and necessary things against the wondrous power these have to keep the soul so occupied that there remains but little power or zest for fellowship with God.  Then there is the restlessness and worry that come of care and anxiety about earthly things; these eat away the life of trust and keep the soul like a troubled sea.  There the gentle whispers of the Holy Comforter (Holy Spirit) cannot be heard.

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