The Silence of the Soul
“And the Lord appeared unto Isaac the same night” (Gen. 26:24).
Appeared the same night! The night on which he went to Beer-sheba!!
Why did He come to Isaac in the night on which he reached Beer-sheba?
Because-
– that was the night on which he reached rest.
In his old locality-
– he had been tormented. There had been a whole series of petty quarrels about the possession of paltry wells. There are no worries like little worries, particularly if there is an accumulation of them.
Isaac felt this. Even after the strife was past, the place retained a disagreeable association. He determined to leave. He sought change of scene. He pitched his tent away from the place of former strife.
That very night-
– the Revelation came! God spoke when there was no inward storm! He did not speak when the mind was fretted.
His voice demands the silence of the soul! Only in the hush of the spirit could-
– Isaac hear the garments of his God sweep by. His still night was his starry night! Have you pondered these words, “Be still, and know”?
In the hour of perturbation, you cannot not hear the answer to your prayers.
The heart gets no response in the moment of its crying-
-in its thunder, its earthquake, and its fire.
But
– when the crying ceased, when the stillness fell, when your hand desisted from knocking on the iron gate, when the interest of others broke the tragedy of your own,
-then appeared the long-delayed reply!
The rainbow shall span the place of the subsiding flood! And in your stillness you shall hear the everlasting music!!
Rest in the Lord to receive His revelations!
(PR)