One Year Bible

“In quietness and trust is your strength” (Isaiah 30:15). Quietness is the state of repose and rest, of no longer struggling and fretting. God wants to give His people quietness, and quietness begins with righteousness: “The effect of righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever” (32:17). When we are sure that our sins are forgiven and we are in right standing with God, a deep quietness fills our hearts. From that quietness comes confidence. We base our confidence on our righteousness, knowing that we are welcome to ask Him anything we need. We must be confident that “as soon as he hears, he will answer” (Isaiah 30:19). John said, “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us whatever we ask we know that we have what we asked of him” (1 John 5:14,15). Righteousness, quietness, then confidence will bring us through affliction, for Jesus is the “shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land” (Isaiah 32:2). Let’s stay in the shadow of His quietness and rest!