There are two kinds of tranquility among us—not counting the tranquilizer a person can buy in bottles. There is the tranquility that people find in just taking themselves and everything around them for granted. They tend to believe all kinds of good things about themselves—which are not really true. That is dangerous.
Then there is the true tranquility that God has promised when the soul has been shaken to its foundation. There is little preaching about this kind of tranquility in our day. Too often men and women get referred to psychiatrists rather than to God. If they would do what the Bible directs, they would take their disturbances and their alarms to God and to an open Bible. If the Holy Spirit is allowed to illuminate the Word of God, the Word will first do its surgery, but then it will mend what it has cut. The result is true tranquility of soul, spirit and mind.
Jeremiah 15:16; Romans 5:1; 1 John 5:3–10; Revelation 10:8–11
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