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Peace and Assurance, June 21
Emotional Maturity Brings Happiness
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of
righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
Isaiah 32:17
The true principles of psychology are found in the Holy Scriptures.
Man knows not his own value. He acts according to his unconverted
temperament of character, because he does not look unto Jesus, the
Author and Finisher of his faith. He who comes to Jesus, he who believes
on Him and makes Him his Example, realizes the meaning of the words,
“To them gave He power to become the sons of God.” ...
Those who pass through the experience of true conversion will real-
ize, with keenness of perception, their responsibility to God to work out
their own salvation with fear and trembling, their responsibility to make
complete their recovery from the leprosy of sin. Such an experience will
lead them humbly and trustfully to place their dependence upon God.
To have a consciousness that the eyes of the Lord are upon us and
His ears open to hear our prayers is a satisfaction indeed. To know that
we have a never-failing Friend in whom we can confide all the secrets of
the soul is a privilege which words can never express.
Men and women enjoying the religion of Jesus Christ will not be
uneasy, restless, discontented, changeable; the peace of Christ in the
heart will give solidity to character.
You must not let anything rob your soul of peace, of restfulness, of
the assurance that you are accepted just now. Appropriate every promise;
all are yours on condition of your complying with the Lord’s prescribed
terms. Entire surrender of your ways, which seem so very wise, and
taking Christ’s ways, is the secret of perfect rest in His love.
The soul consecrated to the service of Christ has a peace that the
world cannot give or take away.
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