when you hear, "now it came to pass," settle down for a good story. when God asserts, "I Am," trust his self revelation. when He promises "I will," bank on it. When He tells you, "You shall... you shall not..." do what He says.
Lord,
my heart is not proud,
and my eyes are not haughty,
and i do not go after things too great
and too difficult for me.
Surely i have composed and quieted my soul.
like a weaned child on his mother,
like a weaned child on me is my soul.
Israel, hope in the Lord forever.
(author's translation of Psalm 131)
this person is quiet on the inside becanse he has learned the only true and lasting composure. He describes what the peace that passes understanding is like (Phil 4:7)
amazingly, this man isn't noisy inside. He isn't busy-busy-busy. not obsessed or no edge. pressure to achieve doesn't consume him. Failure and despair don't haunt him. anxiety isn't spinning him into free fall. regrets don't corrode his inner experience. he's not stumbling through the minefield of blind longings and fears.
He's quiet.
are you quiet inside? if your answer is 'No', what is the 'noise' going on inside you? where does it comes from?
taken from David Powlinson, Seeing with New Eyes (New Jersey: P&R Publishing) p76
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You have made us for Yourself, O God,
And our hearts are restless until they find their rest in You. - Augustine
It still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedience. Therefore God again set a certain day, calling it Today, when a long time later he spoke through David, as was said before:
"Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts."
There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience. - Heb 4:6,7, 9,10
should i take leave in Jan??
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