This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says:
“In repentance and rest is your salvation,
in quietness and trust is your strength,
but you would have none of it."
in quietness and trust is your strength,
but you would have none of it."
- Isaiah 30:15
Here it is again...the passage I don't like. The one that says my salvation and my strength is actually in things like quietness, trust, repentance, and rest. Each of these four things independently is HUGE, but taken together, they represent an impossible wall that I feel I have to scale (there it is again...the concept that *resting* takes more work than *not* resting...) No, this doesn't fit my paradigm. Strength requires ACTION! Winning involves chasing hard after something...er...doesn't it? No, I don't like this passage. Intellectually, I know that this is truth. And I know that this truth should be allowed to define my feelings instead of the other way around. I have it backwards. I am indicted for my response...the part that says "but you would have none of it." OUCH. I wonder when I will consider the rest that God commands here and elsewhere to be a gift, rather than something to outrun?
You said, ‘No, we will flee on horses.’
Therefore you will flee!
You said, ‘We will ride off on swift horses.’
Therefore your pursuers will be swift!
Therefore you will flee!
You said, ‘We will ride off on swift horses.’
Therefore your pursuers will be swift!
- Isaiah 30:16
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