Quietness

“When He giveth quietness, who then can make trouble?”—Job 34:29

IN THE midst of wars, turmoil and strife; in a world gone mad, what a comfort and blessed assurance the words of this text bring to the Lord’s people. What a precious promise, that God will make wars to cease unto the end of the earth; and that “He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.” (Psa. 46:9,10) When He whose right it is will assume control of earth’s affairs, He who quelled the stormy Sea of Galilee, will with the same authority and power command the stormy sea of human passion to be still, and there shall be a great calm. “His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end, … to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice … forever.” (Isaiah 9:6,7) Truly, that is a condition much to be desired.

While our text is applicable to the world at large, we believe that its more direct application is to those who have that peace, that quietness in their own hearts. Those who have that peace of God which passeth human understanding, and which the world cannot give nor take away, have this peace regardless of outward circumstances and conditions. “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee.” (Isaiah 26:3) They have this peace and quietness because they consider that the trials and difficulties of the present are not worthy of a moment’s comparison with the glory that shall be revealed in them.

“What though my joys and comfort die!
The Lord my Savior, liveth;
What though the darkness gather round!
Songs in the night He giveth.”

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