WE’VE been musing upon Isaiah 30:15 these past couple of comments, a verse of singular significant to me, along with others like You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You (Isa 26:3). As mentioned, Isa. 30:15 became significant to me from the influence of one who possessed a perfect peace that I did not have and hoped one day to find for myself.
NOTE again that Isaiah 30:15 is a verse containing three-parts with reference to our Holy God. Our None But the Hungry Heart musing opened last time with the Psalm. 73:26, “God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.” Again, that is an excerpt, partial rendition of verse 26. Here is the whole verse:
My flesh and my heart fail;
But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
THAT verse in its entirety fits well with Isa 30:15a & b:
“In returning and rest you shall be saved;
In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”
WHEN we are restless and troubled of heart or circumstances, well – “[He] will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on [Him]” (Isa 26:3). But, here’s the rub, we have choices, and Isa. 30:15 holds up a blessed proposition, but it also contains a dire warning:
But you would not (Isa 30:15c)
WITH that in mind, here is another reading from None But the Hungary Heart – 1-6, the “Fullness of Self.”
In the inexorable riches of Christ,
Joe
Neh. 8:10; Isa 30:15; Job 2:10; Jas. 1:2; Prov. 21:30
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1-6. Fullness of Self
“Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?” (Isa. 2:22). As Christians we are going to be controlled by one of two powers: the self-life, or the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. The former will make life hell, the latter, heaven. “He who knows that awful power of the self-life within; its enmity with God; its carnality; its grieving and quenching of the Spirit; its deadly blighting of all the blessed fruits of the Spirit; its fierce and desperate resisting of his hunger to enter into the full life of the Spirit, needs no other explanation of the lack of the fullness of the Spirit than the fullness of self.” -J.H. McC.
“Do not seek to shatter the mirror which reflects your soul’s lack of beauty; rather welcome the truth, and believe that next to knowledge of the Lord Jesus nothing is so important as the knowledge of self.” -N.G.
“There is nothing in self worth holding on to; it ought to be handed to the Cross; we have submitted ourselves to such a life as that, and our Father is going to give us every opportunity to allow the Holy Spirit to hold the old nature in the place of death, with the glorious end in view that our Lord Jesus will have the preeminence.” -F.M.
“I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth Thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes” (Job 42:5, 6).
