In Quietness

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 13, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 32.

God says to us, “Be still, and know that I am God.” Ps. 46:10. It is “in quietness and confidence” that our strength lies; in returning and rest we find salvation. We must be silent before the Lord, or else we shall miss the still, small voice which alone reveals him to the soul. God can thunder with a terrible voice, but we could not understand that; so he reveals himself to us in a whisper. That conveys intelligible sound to our understanding, whereas the thunder would only startle and terrify us. So we read: “Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways; but how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?” Job 26:14, R. V.