All - loving Father, sometimes we have walked under starless skies that dripped darkness like drenching rain. We despaired from the lack of light from the sin, moon, and stars. The gloomy darkness loomed above us as if it would last forever. And from the dark, there spoke no soothing voice to mend our broken hearts. We would gladly have welcomed even a wild slap of thunder, if only to break the torturing stillness of that mournfully depressing night.. Yet Your soft whisper of eternal love spoke more sweetly to our bruised and bleeding souls than any winds that breathe across a wind harp. It was Your "gentle whisper" that spoke to us. We were listening and we heard You, and then we looked and saw Your face, which was radiant with the light of Your love. And when we heard Your voice and saw Your face, new life returned to us, just as life returns to withered blossoms that drink the summer rain.
For the hearts that will cease focusing on themselves, there is "the peace of God, which transcends all understanding" (Phil. 4:7; "quietness and trust" (Isa. 30:15), which is the source of all strength; a "great peace" that will never "make them stumble" (Ps 119:165); and a deep rest, which the world can never give nor take away. Deep within the center of the soul is a chamber of peace where God lives and where if we will enter it and quiet all the other sounds, we can hear His "gentle whisper" ( 1 Kings 19:12).
Dear friends, be at "peace" this morning", your Heavenly Father is. If you can't find this peace, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved. He will made His abode with you in that chamber of peace in the center of your Soul. You will never be the same. The "Prince of Peace" has come to live in you, ever making Himself known to you! He is your Peace this morning! Can you hear Him whisper your name?
In the Love of Jesus,
James Wesley
