Perfect Rest in God in All Circumstances . . .

Perfect Rest in God in All Circumstances . . .

develops through living faith in God’s perfect, all-good, and all-wise guidance of everything and everyone!! For example, faith in this word in Psalm 18:30: “As for God, His way is perfect . . . .” If people really believed that He controlled everything with perfect goodness and wisdom, this would completely exclude all dissatisfaction with everything and everyone, as well as all anger, bitterness, feeling slighted, offendedness, anxiety, reproach, and judging, etc.

Faith in Psalm 119:91 will also have the same effect: “For all [things] are your servants.” Also Lamentations 3:38: “Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that woe and well-being proceed?” Everything is intended for our best!

“If there is a calamity in a city, will not the Lord have done it?” Amos 3:6. Through living faith in this word, all unrest and unnecessary “why’s” fall away. We have no reason to ask why because we know the answer beforehand, being firmly convinced of God’s perfect leading. Of course it is impossible to wish for anything better than perfection!!!

And what shall we say about Matthew 10:29 and 30? “Not one of them [sparrow] falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.” This is how unimaginably precise God is!!! If we believe this, we will peacefully and blessedly land in God’s perfect rest.

All unrest has its source in unbelief and the sin resulting from it.

And what shall we say about Romans 8:28? “And we know [namely, by faith] that all things work together for the best [several foreign translations] to those who love God . . . .” If we do not doubt, we must necessarily say something like this: “Silence, what more do you desire?!”1

Therefore: it is not only that all things work together for my good, but they even work together for my best!!! This is to say that anything else would have been only loss for me.

By believing with the heart—without doubting—in the almighty, all-good, all-wise God’s perfect guidance, I can always rest in Him, irrespective of what I encounter in this evil world.

Neither Satan nor evil people can say or do anything at all unless God permits it. He permits it for the purpose of testing my state and to give me an opportunity to overcome. And even if I suffer defeat, it is still an advantage for me to become aware of the fact that I am still not any better than that. Then I have good reason, during the time of grace, to seek what was revealed that I was still lacking.

“Let us therefore be diligent [make every effort] to enter that rest . . . .” Heb. 4:11.