ISAIAH 30:15 has become one of the banner verses of my life, something that I aspire to and rejoice in achieving to some degree; although not as much as I would have liked or hope to have accomplished before my passing (Phil 3:14). I explained in the last comment how this verse came to be significant to me from the influence of one who possessed a peace and quiet confidence that I set upon acquiring for myself. Reading Isa. 30:15 and only quoted it in part:
In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.
But that is an excerpt of a three-part verse. It is Isaiah 30:15b. Here is the verse in its entirety:
For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel:
“In returning and rest you shall be saved;
In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”
But you would not,
NOTICE, we have here after the Lord’s declaration of holiness a three part (a, b, c) statement. The In quietness and confidence shall be your strength, is part b. In returning and rest you shall be saved is part a; and then part c – a curious way to conclude it.
OKAY, I’m going to stop here and let you think about that. Maybe even invite you to read the entire chapter 30 context.
WITH that said, here is another reading from None But the Hungary Heart, 1-20.
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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1-20. Satisfying Portion
“God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever” (Ps. 73.26).
Finally, when all else fails us, we find that God is enough. That which we most need in life – love, unfailing love – is abundantly and satisfyingly ours in the Lord Jesus. But we so often seek it elsewhere.
“Nothing can be sweeter than the repose in divine love when it is known and the heart is free to rest in it. The soul may have a long journey to reach it experientially; there may be many needs and exercises to be met and removed on the way; self and the world will have to be learned; but the great end of all our exercises – and, I may add, of all our deliverances – is that we rest in the thoughts of divine love, and that love becomes in a very real way the portion of our hearts. If our hearts are not in the circle of divine love they have really got nothing, for as Christians we have no portion on earth. Thank God! it is a blessed and satisfying portion.” – C.A.C.
“There is no reserve in God’s love; He has given the best in heaven for the worst on earth, and in this way has rebuked distrust and established confidence, so that ‘the works of the devil’ might be undone in our hearts. If we only want what God gives us we shall be perfectly happy. Nothing is of real value to us that we cannot take from our Father’s hand and thank Him for.”
“And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God” (2 Thess. 3:5).
