restWednesday, April 29
Your Strength Is in Quiet
Scripture
"In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it."
— Isaiah 30:15
What it means
God is speaking to a people who were trying to save themselves with alliances, strategy, speed. He says something unexpected: your rescue is not in doing more. It's in two pairs. First pair: repentance and rest — turning back to Me, and stopping. Second pair: quietness and trust — a calm inside, and belief that I will act. Then the heartbreaking line: 'but you would have none of it.' They preferred the noise. That is the warning.