✝ Daily Encouragement (9/4/24) "The Blessing Of Quietness"
Published: Wed, 09/04/24
Updated: Wed, 09/04/24
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(Click refresh or reload for current message) Wednesday, September 4, 2024 
View
toward our
house from the
corner of the
long corn
canyon trail
across the
road from us.
I expect this
corn will be
harvested
today.
" The Blessing Of Quietness" Message summary: Today let us consider the blessing of spiritual silence. Quietness and trust ever remain our source of strength. As an old hymn states, "There is a place of quiet rest near to the heart of God".
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 Bob
is a longtime
friend who
deals with a
non-visible
yet impairing
disability. He
has a severe
form of
tinnitus,
which causes a
constant
ringing or
buzzing in his
ears. However
he maintains a
victorious
outlook and
for many years
has shared the
Gospel in
nursing home
services and
many other
settings. He
also sends out
through email
a Bible
message that
he writes each
week. He is a
genuine
overcomer!We have occasionally met others with this affliction and recall visiting with Tracy, a lady whom I could tell was in discomfort. She told me she has tinnitus, which among other things caused headaches in her case. She had heard about a recently developed hearing aid type device that shows great promise although they are very expensive. She has a friend that has them and the improvement was dramatic. She hopes to someday manage to get similar help. She asked me to guess what she would like to hear after getting the hearing aids. That’s like asking a blind person what’s the first thing they’d like to see after their sight is recovered. Would Tracy want to hear pleasant sounds such as birds singing, children playing, or a babbling brook?
Actually
she told me
the first
thing she
would like to
“hear” is
“silence”
(which
prompts a
memory of the
sixties song
“Sounds Of
Silence).
She can presently hear pleasant sounds in life but always accompanied by the ringing and buzzing. The sound she longs for is the sound of silence which prompted me to consider the blessing of silence. We live in a noisy world, much of it our own choosing. Consider how many need to have the television on or music playing all the time often through headphones. I do like music but I also like silence! Today let us consider the blessing of spiritual silence. There’s a lot of noise, voices of all types clamoring for our attention and getting louder it seems. Today’s second Bible text is a gem deep in the heart of Isaiah. “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” (Isaiah 30:15). What a timeless message from the unchanging Sovereign Lord. MacLaren’s Exposition comments, “Israel always felt the difficulty of sustaining itself on the height of dependence on the unseen, spiritual power of God, and was ever oscillating between alliances with the Northern and Southern powers, linking itself with Assyria against Egypt, or with Egypt against Assyria.” Likewise we also struggle with depending, trusting, and resting wholly in God regarding that which concerns us versus depending on the “arm of flesh”which is all the paltry substitutes for relying on God. Yet quietness and trust ever remain our source of strength. As an old hymn states, "There is a place of quiet rest near to the heart of God". Be encouraged today, Hebrews 3:13
Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Living out
in the country
we
are accustomed
to relative
silence
compared to
where many of
you live.
However,
during this
season, we
have natural
noise such as
the loud
sounds of
summer
nighttime
insects which
we can even
hear through
our closed
windows, the
pleasant
chirping of
birds, a
rooster's crow
or
occasionally
even a distant
cow’s moo or
the bleating
of sheep. Of
course we have
mechanical
sounds as
well; traffic
on our road or
farm equipment
in the fields.
I expect our
corn harvest
will begin
today on the
field across
from our
house. Today's
Suggested
Music and
Supplemental
Resources "Near
to the Heart
of God"
Listen
on YouTube
"Inside
the world's
quietest room"
Video 
Brooksyne
plants lots of
flowers around
our house but
these morning
glories are
growing on an
old post next
to the
cornfield
across the
road, the
result of
growth from
previously
discarded lawn
clippings from
previous
years.
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