p. 327 | BLESSINGS IN SILENCE by W. O. Cushing

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 22, 1880

BLESSINGS IN SILENCE.

By W. O. Cushing

God comes to us in silence, not in tumult and in storm. He does indeed at times speak in thunder tones to those who have despised his love. He warns them of the terrible threatenings of his law, and of the woes that must come to all those who refuse to obey. How could he be true in his relation to us as a parent, unless he did this. But the nature of God is to be gentle. This is expressed in the words of the psalmist: "He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass." And it is said in one place: "I will be as the dew to Israel." "As the dew of Hermon; and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion." Every trusting, believing heart has felt the gentle presence of the Heavenly Spirit. It has come with refreshing power, as when the parched earth drinks in the rain and the dew.

The dews of heaven do not descend in the tumult and rush of the tempest, but in the quiet of the evening shadows when nature is at rest. The waiting heart receives in silence the precious blessing. If you would receive this blessing, rich as the dew of Hermon, come humbly, with selfish passions hushed, and in that silence God will bless you.

Men seek to drown their sorrows amid the excitement of the world; but God is not there. The world brings no comfort, but only emptiness and unrest. To the soul, there can come no showers of refreshing, only from the riches of his love who gives us all things.— W. O. Cushing.