GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 5

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES:

JESUS, YOU……… POURED YOUR SOUL OUT UNTO DEATH

JESUS, YOU………..STILL DID NOT OPEN YOUR MOUTH!

JESUS, YOU……….MADE INTERCESSION FOR MY TRANSGRESSIONS AGAINST YOU.

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THE WORD FOR TODAY

Psalm 62:1

“Truly my soul silently waits for God;  From Him comes my salvation.”

Finishing the chapter called “In Stillness of Soul” in Andrew Murray’s classic book, “Abide in Christ”

No less hurtful is the spirit of fear and distrust in spiritual things;  with its apprehensions and its efforts, it never comes to hear what God truly has to say.  Above all, there is the unrest that comes through seeking in our own way, and in our own strength, the spiritual blessing that comes alone from above. The heart occupied with its own plans and efforts for doing God’s will, and securing the blessing of abiding in Jesus, must fail continually.

God’s work is hindered by our interference.  He can do his work perfectly only when the soul ceases from its work.  He will do his work mightily in the soul that honors Him by expecting Him to work both to will and to do.

And, last of all, even when the soul seeks truly to enter the way of faith, there is the impatience of the flesh, which forms its judgment of the life and progress of the soul not after the divine, but the human standard.

In dealing with all this, and so much more, blessed is the man who learns the lesson of stillness and fully accepts God’s Word in Isaiah 30:15:

“In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.”

Each time he listens to the Word of the Father, or asks the Father to listen to his words, he dares not begin his Bible reading or prayer without first pausing and waiting until the soul is hushed in the presence of the Eternal Majesty.  Under a sense of the divine nearness, the soul, feeling how self is always ready to assert itself and intrude even into the holiest of all with its thoughts and efforts, yields itself in a quiet act of self-surrender to the teaching and working of the divine Spirit.  It is still and waits in holy silence until all is calm and ready to receive the revelation of the divine will and presence.  Its reading and prayer then indeed become a waiting on God with ear and heart opened and purged to receive fully only what He says.

Abide in Christ!!! Let no one think that he can do this if he does not daily have his quiet time, his seasons of meditation and waiting on God.  In these, a habit of soul must be cultivated in which the believer goes out into the world and its distractions with the peace of God that passes all understanding keeping the heart and mind (Philippians 4:7).   It is in such a calm and restful soul that the life of faith can strike deep root, that the Holy Spirit and give His blessed teaching, and that the Holy Father can accomplish His glorious work. 

May each one of us learn every day to say, “Truly my soul is silent unto God.”  And may every feeling of the difficulty of attaining this only lead us simply to look and trust Him whose presence makes even the storm a calm.  Cultivate the quietness as a means to the abiding of Christ; expect the ever deepening quietness and calm of heaven in the soul as the fruit of abiding in Him.

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