I invite you to take your Bibles
this morning and turn to the book of Micah chapter 2. The book of Micah chapter 2. I want to read one verse. It's
verse 10, Micah chapter 2. Arise ye, the prophet says, and
depart, for this is not your rest, because it is polluted. It shall destroy you even with
a sore destruction. meditation and thought concerning
the holiday that we just had and
visitation of family and getting together with friends and loved
ones. I thought a great deal about
how vain this world is, about the vanity of the world. Now
our brother has read to us Ecclesiastes chapter 1 and chapter 2 Word
spelled out quite well. And when we rejoice, we feel
somehow or other that there's a hollowness in it. And even
in the things of this life, there is, when they're at their best,
we know that they shall soon end, and trouble will follow,
and all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Well, when I read
this verse of Scripture here in Micah 2, verse 10, we have
here a very solemn admonition. A very solemn admonition. Arise ye and depart, for this
is not your rest. Above all lands, the land of
Canaan, that land which God promised to the children of Israel, seemed
most adapted for a place of rest. A place where they would find
rest. And the people whom God had so wondrously led into that
land appeared most likely to find there that rest which they
so much desired and that which surely by the time they arrived
there after 40 years in the wilderness they were looking forward to.
They were looking forward to rest. Yet to this people and
respect of this very country God says through the mouth of
his prophet, Arise and depart, for this is not your rest. This is not your rest, even though
you thought it would be, even though you had hope that eventually
you were going to find a place of solitude, a place of rest.
You were going to be able to find a place where you'd be able
to finally sit down by the river and enjoy your time in this life. Well why did the Lord through
his prophets say this? He said the land has been defiled,
it has been polluted by the people, by their idolatries, and by their
rebellion, by their sin against God. Now David in Psalm 119 verse
54 called this world the house of his pilgrimage. And all those
who the book of Hebrews speaks of as having died in faith, not
receiving the promise, but having seen them afar off, these confess
that they were strangers and pilgrims upon this earth. Now, the people of God has always
been like-minded. We have here, the Bible says,
no continuing city. We have here in this world no
continuing place of abode. We're told in the book of Philippians
that our citizenship is in heaven, from whence also we look for
the coming of the Son of Man, for the coming of the Son of
God. who will change these vile bodies and fashion them into
a body like unto his own according to the power whereby he is able
to subdue all things unto himself. Our citizenship is in heaven.
Beloved, it's not here in this world. Now this world the believer
regards as only a waste-howling wilderness, a place of trial,
a place of tribulation, a place of test. Through much tribulation
you'll enter into the kingdom of God. That word tribulation
is trouble. And so the true believer regards
this world as a waste-howling wilderness that we must pass
through on our way to the promised land. We must pass through this
world. It is that place wherein God
has chosen to exercise our faith, wherein God has chosen to test
us and to try us. It is that place wherein we will
discover much about ourselves. Hopefully we'll learn much about
our God, the God we worship, and the God we serve, and the
God we follow. So life is the journey that we're
on, and heaven is our home. And we, a believer, is a traveler
on our way to Zion, the city of God. We do not have here a
continuing city, but we seek one to come. Now some professors
I know don't feel this way about it. There is a miserable tendency
in men to cling to things that are seen. David said, My soul
cleaveth unto the dust. Well, there are many people that
read the chapters or hear the chapters read that our brothers
read to us this morning out of Ecclesiastes and said, That preacher,
Solomon, he must have had a real bad day. He must have got up
on the wrong side of the bed to talk like he did about this
fair world. Well, brother, sister, he was
a man of wisdom. He was the wisest man that ever
lived on the face of the earth outside of the Son of God, the
Son of Man himself. And Solomon tried everything.
He had the means, he had the money, he had the various ways
of going about trying and dealing with the things of this life,
trying to make them come out in a favorable way. And yet he
said, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Now, there are many,
many people who say, well, if I had the means, I know I could
find some rest in this world. If I just had enough money, if
I just had enough wisdom, if I just knew how to go about it,
if I had the right contacts, if I could reach the right people,
I surely would find rest in this world. I tell you, my friend,
you're deceived. You're very deceived because
it will not happen. Now, what if the children of
Israel, I thought about this, while they were out in that wilderness,
as they were going along day by day in the wilderness, you
know, what would happen if they were to build houses and cities
in the wilderness and tried to camp there? along the way. Well, it would have been disastrous
indeed, but the Lord would not allow it. He would not permit
it. He kept them moving. You see, even though they were
wandering around, the Lord would not allow them to drive their
stakes too deep. They had to get up. They had
to move. When that pillar of cloud moved,
they had to move. When that pillar of fire moved,
they had to move. And the Lord took care of them.
He provided for them day after day. The manna fell. And oh,
as the poet said, to learn that lesson well, right here in this
world, God provided for those people, the children of Israel,
when they had nothing but the burning sand under their feet. They could not stop long enough
to grow a crop or anything like that, but God provided for them,
but He kept them moving. They did not build a city. So
be very careful, my friend, when you try to drive your stakes
too deep here in this world. Be very careful. and suspect
something is wrong if you keep on thinking that eventually you're
going to find what you're looking for here in this world. You're
not going to find it. You will not find it this side,
the river of death. You will not find it outside
the celestial city. It shall not be found in this
world. Now, first of all, I want to
talk about the truth here that is stated. This is not your rest. Well, rest? Where shall it be
found? I believe this is the question
for the hour. Where will we find some rest?
We want rest? Where will it be found? Well,
will it be found in the creature? No, the creature perishes. Men
are but creatures for an hour. Mortal is written upon the brow,
upon the forehead of every creature. Mortal. We're soon to die and
leave this world. We cannot find rest in the creature. You say, well, I find a great
deal of rest in my loved ones. Well, that's wonderful, but is
there any permanency in that? I mean, is that a permanent rest?
Will you be able to rest forever in your creatures, friends, and
in those around you, in your loved ones? Absolutely not. And
then some are looking for pleasure. Shall it be found in the pleasures
of time and sense? No. These things are transitory,
and they're very unsatisfactory, and they're flat-veined pleasures
in this world. Now, in the world and the things
of this world, shall we find any pleasure? Shall we find enduring
rest? No. The world passeth away, the
Bible says, and thus thereof, the world passeth away, and the
fashion of it shall soon be gone, and so we shall not find rest
there. Oh, where shall rest be found? Rest for the weary soul. to urvain
the ocean depths to sound, or pierce to either pole. The world
can never give the rest for which we sight, tis not the whole of
life to live, nor all of death to die. My friend, there shall
be no rest found here in this world, no permanent rest found
here for us. Now men have sought rest in every
temporal thing, and they've been disappointed in their effort.
No one any more so than Solomon of old. Solomon diligently searched
out and he cried in the end, vanity of vanity, all is vanity. I read in John chapter 4 where
Jesus, speaking to the woman at the well in verse 13 and 14,
he said as he answered her, he said, whosoever drinketh of this
water shall thirst again. Whosoever shall drink of this
water shall thirst again. Now what was he talking about?
He's talking about Jacob's well. And Jacob's well is typical of
all of the wells of this world. Whatever you might be drawing
out of them, whatever it is you might be putting your bucket
down to get, all of the wells of this world as you drink out
of them, you will thirst again. Anybody that thinks that their
thirst is going to be forever slack by their drinking of the
wells of this world is foolish. They're vain and foolish. My
friend, these wells will not satisfy. But Jesus said in verse
14, But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him
shall never thirst. If you drink of the water that
I give you, that spiritual drink, if you will drink of the Spirit
of God, if you will drink of my life, if you will drink of
me, then, he said, you will never thirst again. The soul is made
to be satisfied with God, and it will never be satisfied with
anything less than Almighty God. And so as you're seeking to find
Rest, my friend, keep this in mind. Are you drinking of the
wells of this world? Do you really feel that that's
going to satisfy you and give you rest? No. Well, what is our
own experience? about this. Solomon's experience
is one thing, but what about our own experience? Have we had
a little experience of our own? There was an old song that says,
time has made a change in the old home place, and time has
made a change in each smiling face, and time has made a change
in me. Well, these changes are brought
about by time, the passage of time, and all of us recognize
that in this world life is filled, as the song says, with swift
transition. Not of earth unmoved shall stand. As we experience life, as I've
experienced it, and those around me that I'm familiar with have
experienced it, life is changing all the time. All the time. It's always taking on another
face. And we see that life does not
remain the same. We think we got everything just
looking like a picture, you know, and everything's wonderful, and
we see it decaying and changing. We get our appearance just the
very best we can, but in just a little while we look in the
mirror and something went wrong. Don't know what it was, but something
happened, and the makeup don't cover it all up anymore, and
we're not able to get the thing fixed just like we want, and
we comb the hair this way and that way, trying to cover up
all the spots, but it don't do any good. It's gone, and it's
gone forever. So time will make a change, my
friend. We're all dying. We're all dying. Every one of us are dying. We
are in the vestibule of death. Death, you know, is the brother
of life. He is the very brother of life. And we all shall pass
from this life. We all must leave this world.
And we must keep that in mind. Old brother Buhl Kazee, who was
a professor of Old Testament down in the Ashland Avenue Bible
College in Lexington, Kentucky, had a little song that he used
to sing all the time. And one of the verses was, Oh
ye young, ye proud, ye gay, you must die and wear the shroud.
Time will rob you of your bloom. Death will drag you to your tomb. And my friend, I believe those
words. They're absolutely true. Death is going to drag you to
your tomb. Time will rob you of your bloom. And if you don't think so, and
it's wonderful, you know, to see these young people and see
them in health and how beautiful they are and how handsome they
are. But my friend, time is going to take a toll on you. And my
experience is, it took one on me. And my experience is that
we must prepare to die. Prepare to die, O Israel. And then the cares of this world
and the troubles of life. You know, we get new houses and
we get cars and we get trucks, but just in a little while, We
see that they do not retain their luster, and they do not retain
that which we thought at first, that they were just what we wanted,
and the glitter of those vehicles and
that new home and all would surely provide us with all of the rest
and the blessing that we could ever hope for. Well, it might
be true for a little while, but my friend, very soon we shall
see that the trouble of getting and the trouble of keeping My
friend, these troubles are enough to make us want to just give
them up and say if we could be free from all the trouble of
all these things. These things, these things, all
the things that you have, and they're my things, you know,
and these things are mine, and sure they are, but my friend,
you're going to part with them. You'll soon part with them. They'll
soon leave you, or you will leave them. These things will not exist. As sparks fly upward, the Bible
says, man is born into trouble. Just as sure as you're born of
a woman, you're born into trouble in this world, and you'll find
it to be so. Jacob said, my days have been
few, and they've been full of trouble. And he lived to be an
old man, but he said, as it appears to me, my days have been few,
and they've been full of trouble. Brethren, we cannot have heaven
here and heaven hereafter. It's not going to work. It will
not work. This is not your rest. You need
to remember that. You cannot have it in both places.
Well, there's a reason given in our text, and it is because
it is polluted. Now there was a time when this
fair world was unblemished, and God saw it and said it was very
good. God said it's very good. Adam and Eve found it a resting
place, but then they polluted it. and their rest was disturbed
and it was destroyed. When Eve got to thinking that
God was not as big as he said that he was, then she took of
the fruit and she sinned against God. Sin has marred the whole. Romans 5 and 12 says that in
Adam we all died and that what Adam did we did too. We all sinned
in Adam. And the stream was polluted with
unrighteousness. And this stream has flowed abundantly
throughout mankind. And so we find pollution everywhere. We find it in our blood. We find
it everywhere. Sin is the cause of all of the
distress and the problems we have. All the children drink.
And as they drink in the pollutions, they drink in the miseries and
the sorrows. and they drank in the death that
God promised to Adam when he sinned in the garden. There's
not a care, there's not a trial, there's not a sorrow, there's
not a suffering that can befall us, but is connected with this
pollution that was brought into the world when Adam sinned and
fell in the garden. Sin opened the door which admitted
all of those disturbers of rest. Everything that disturbs your
rest today, all can be traced back to sin. All can be traced
back to the rebellion of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
toward the Lord God. And it can be traced back to
your own rebellion, your own sin. Your misery, my friend,
has been brought upon you by sin. Oh, you may blame somebody
else for your problem. You may blame somebody else for
the sorrow and the difficulty you have. But remember, it all
stemmed from, it all came from sin. And if your rest is disturbed
today and you have not any real comfort in your soul, it's because
of sin. And we need to be aware of it.
Heaven has decreed that sin and rest They're incompatible. You cannot have rest in this
world and you cannot have heavenly rest here without there being
something to disturb and agitate you. But in that happy land and
fair, there shall be no sin or pollution to mar our rest. Hallelujah. The people of God
shall rest over there. The people of God will rest up
yonder when they change worlds and move upstairs to be with
the Lord. They will rest, I tell you. They'll have rest. God himself
shall wipe away all tears from all faces, and there shall be
no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there
be any more pain, for all the former things have passed away. Listen to this song, O Land of
Rest. For thee I sigh, when will the
moment come when I shall lay my armor by and dwell at peace
at home? To Jesus Christ I fled for rest,
he made me cease to roam and lean for succor on his breast
till he conduct me home. Those are wonderful words. And
beloved, it is when we arrive home that we will find rest. Where can we go here? But what
it is polluted. Still the wickedness of man is
great in the earth. Still every imagination of the
thoughts of man's natural heart is only evil continually. It
is so. I'm stating facts, scriptural
facts, my friend, that anywhere where you go in this world, everything
will be the same. Somebody said if I could just
move. Oh, sometimes I'd just like to get up and go, I hear
people say. I'd just like to move way over
there on the other side of the country, or I'd like to move
out of the... I had a call from a doctor the
other day. And he and his family had been out. He'd been interviewing
for a job in Great Falls. And they wanted to move from
Virginia. They wanted to get away from
the East Coast. He was an anesthesiologist, wanted a job out here. And he
wanted a church. He wanted a good church to attend.
Well, I told him to come on down and visit us if he wanted to.
But nevertheless, people are wanting to move, thinking, you
know, that everything will be different somewhere else. But
my friend, if you take yourself with you, when you go, everything's
going to be the same when you get there. It'll be the same.
You need to be aware of that. It's the corruption of the heart.
It's the pollution of the heart. It's the pollution of the people
around you. People are the same everywhere.
There's not that much difference in men. You go any place you
want to go, and everybody... You know yourself? Well, when
you get there, those people are going to be like you are. They're
going to be sinners, just like you are, and you've got to learn
to live with them. And you cannot. You cannot, my friend, hope to
find a place here that is unspotted from the world. Oh, how deep
is this pollution. How difficult the Christian finds
it to keep himself unspotted from the world in this world.
My friend, this is a a very, very unhealthy atmosphere in
which we live. And we'll find it out as a Christian. We find it out. We find that
we always happen to be careful. We've got to try our best to
stay away from the pollutions that are all around us. from
the corruption that's all around us, from what you see on the
television. And oh my soul, there's plenty
of corruption everywhere you look there's plenty of it. But
to keep the scripture says, the word of the Lord says that we're
to keep ourselves unspotted from the world. But my friend, how
difficult is that? tremendously difficult. Because
iniquity abounds, the love of many waxes cold. You ever felt
it? You ever felt that cold breeze up on your soul? Because iniquity
abounds, the love of many waxes cold. And you say, well, I sure
wish I could warm up. Well, I wish we all could. I
wish the icicles would thaw out, spiritually speaking, and we
would have a little bit of warm, affectionate heat toward our
God. and toward His Word, toward His
truth. Well, we hope by and by to walk
with the Savior in white and by grace to be worthy of the
honor, but as long as we're here, my friend, we're going to have
a struggle because it is polluted. Well, the child of God longs
to escape the pollution which is in the world. He longs to
get away from it. He longs to go on and to be with
the Lord. Well, there's an admonition here
that I find, and that is, arise and depart. Arise and depart. Arise, you that want your portion
here. Rise up, the prophet said. Get up. Get up. Quit thinking
you're going to find it here. Get up. The worst judgment God
could put on any man is condemn him to worldly success and prosperity
for his portion. Oh, wouldn't it be bad if you
were so blessed in this life? Now I said, wouldn't it be bad?
I didn't say, wouldn't it be good? I said, wouldn't it be
bad if God blessed you with worldly success and prospered you and
one day you woke up and here you are an old man, your hair
has turned gray and here you are ready to go off into eternity
and you take a look around and you say, well, I mean, My soul,
I have not dealt with my soul's need yet. I haven't faced eternity
yet. I haven't looked at my condition
yet. I haven't dealt with my sin problem
yet. Nothing has been done and here
I am, I'm ready to go off into eternity. I say that'd be terrible. But along the way, if God gives
you enough trouble, I mean if He just makes it so tough for
you that you have to arise long before you get gray-headed, and
long before you're in trouble, I mean facing death, and wake
you up to the point where you begin to seek the Lord as a young
man. Begin to cry out to God as a
young woman. Begin to cry out to God in all
earnestness and seek the Lord with all of your heart and turn
from your evil ways and follow the Lord. How wonderful that
would be. Now then arise those who are
resting in a creature, those who are resting in a husband
and wife, child or son or daughter, a fellow man, the arm of flesh,
will fail you, you dare not, trust your own, and those of
you that are saying, well, I've got my husband, and you know,
and it's sad, it's very sad, I hear the testimony of some
of these people that lost their husbands and wives in the World
Trade Center disaster, and it is, it is very sad, humanly speaking. But I see some people once in
a while who have made gods out of their husbands, and gods out
of their wives, and gods out of their sons and daughters.
And you know it's easy to do. That's very easy to do. If you
got a good wife, it'd be very, very easy. I mean just simply
to adore that woman and to bestow upon her every blessing, every
bit of the love of your heart. It'd be wonderful to be able
to do that, but my friend, it's a dangerous thing to do. And
to have a good husband? Oh, to have a good husband and
to love that man, but don't make a god out of him. Because I'm
telling you, if you do, the Prophet would say, Arise! Arise! And depart! Depart! Because I'm
telling you, the arm of flesh will fail you. And Isaiah 2 and
22 says, Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils. Cease
ye from man. Learn to find comfort. Learn
to find rest in the Lord your God and find it in this life.
Find it now on this side of eternity. Find it before that solemn call
comes from the heavens. Come ye to judgment. Come up
to judgment before you hear that call, my friend, to rise and
depart and flee to Christ. and trust in Him that you may
find rest for your soul. Arise, you who have proved the
instabilities. Those of you that have lived
long enough to recognize that all that glitters is not gold,
and you've learned as you look at things, well, it may be not
just exactly as it appears. It appears one way, but you get
down in it, and you find out it's not exactly as it looks
like it is. So arise, you that have learned
and proved the instability of earthly things. Come away! Come
away from lying vanities and seek rest where it may truly
be found. Listen to the words of this old
hymn. I heard the voice of Jesus say, Come unto me and rest. Lay down, thou weary one, lay
down thy head. upon my breast. I came to Jesus
as I was, weary, worn, and sad. I found in Him a resting place,
and He has made me glad. He has made me glad. So I say
to you this morning, my friend, seek. Seek the Lord. Seek the
Lord Jesus Christ. Well, I want to ask you this
question. Where did the dove fly which
found no rest for the sole of his feet at the time of the flood? Does anybody know the answer
to that? Where did the dove fly back to when Noah let it loose?
Well, it came right back to the ark. And so because it couldn't
find any place to land except on floating carcasses out in
the water of the flood. And that dove, being the holy
dove, could not light on all of that carnage and so come back
to the ark. And so my point is this, my friend,
those of you, listen. Arise, those of you that have
found that there's nothing in this world for you. Arise and
come to the ark. This ark is a type of Christ.
The ark for perishing sinners is Jesus Christ. He is the ark
of safety and the ark of rest. So arise and depart and come
to the Lord Jesus. Blessed are the dead which die
on the Lord, for they rest from their labors, they rest from
their sorrows, They rest from their sins. They rest! They rest. This is so important
that we see that. There is no rest anywhere else.
That's in Revelation 14 and 13. So depart from the spirit of
the world. Depart from the vain customs
of the world. Beware of earthly mindedness,
my brethren, because as we live in this world, it's so easy to
take upon the same attitude of the people around us. and they're
blindly following the things of this world. And, you know,
we listen to their counsel. We should not. We should not.
We must not. We must be very, very careful
about who we listen to. Wouldn't it be good for us to
develop a habit of listening to God first? Believe in what
God says. Now, I don't know what you believe,
about the inspiration of the Word of God. But I tell you,
I believe that this book, and you know, every once in a while
you just get shook to the foundation. You hear people talking, and
they talk like the Word of God is, they have such low opinion
and low estimate of the Word of God. But my friend, thus saith
the Lord, I want to tell you something. One of the greatest
comforts I ever had in all of my pilgrimage in this world is
a thus saith the Lord. If God said it, that's the comfort
of my soul. That's what stabilizes my heart. That's what gives me the push
to go on. Thus saith the Lord, what God
has said. Earthly mindedness. Arise and
depart from earthly mindedness. From all the foolishness you
pick up at the school, and all the foolishness you pick up out
on the job, and all around. I tell you, get your nose back
in the book. Because when you come to die,
only a thus saith the Lord is going to comfort you. Only thus
saith the Lord is going to give you any sort of hope down the
road. Only thus saith the Lord. You
know, I like that verse in Hebrews 13, where it says, let your conversation
be without covetousness, and be content with such things as
you have, for He has said. For He has said. Now you could
just take that, and that would be your comfort right here in
this world, for He has said. I will never leave thee nor forsake
thee, so that you may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and
you need not fear what man shall do unto you. He hath said. I
like that. I could just preach a sermon
on, He hath said. Well, what has He said? That's
for you to be finding out every day, taking this book, getting
it down, going through it, reading, reading and reading the Word
of God, asking God to bless it to your heart. Oh, those of you
that have no time for His Word, those of you that will not look
to His Word, those of you that will read the things that are
printed in the newspaper and other places and take that for
gospel rather than what God says. I tell you, you're in for trouble.
You're in for trouble. Beware! Arise and depart from
earthly-mindedness and become spiritual-minded by reading and
studying, yea, by developing an appetite, praying that the
Spirit of God would take this word and apply it to your life. Thy grace, thy saving grace,
I need to keep me every hour. By that, and that alone, I'm
freed from earth's enchanting power. Oh, let me closely cleave
to thee while I on earth remain, and then throughout eternity,
thy grace shall be my strain. Arise and depart, for this is
not your rest. for it is polluted, and it shall
destroy you. It shall destroy you. This land
will destroy you if you give yourself to the mind of the people
of the flesh and the people of the world. It will destroy you
even with a sore destruction, a rise and depart. It's time,
my friend, as it were, as Peter told them on the day of Pentecost,
he said, save thyself. Save thyself from this untoward
generation. Save thyself. Not that you can
save yourself to heavenly glory and to heavenly life and eternal
life, but you save yourself from this world. Turn from it. Turn from the mind of the flesh
and begin to turn to the mind of God. I tell you true repentance
is a lifelong turning from the mind of the flesh To the mind
of God, it's no once for all act. And some of you say, I made
a profession, but then you fell by the wayside. You got yourself
in trouble, and you're in bondage to something today. Maybe it's
a drug, maybe it's alcohol, maybe it's something else that you
got yourself in bondage to. I tell you, the only way you're
going to break it, is get before God and get His Word in your
lap and begin to read and study. If necessary, get out on your
knees and begin to read and pray that the God of the Bible will
break the hole that thing's got on your life. The Lord is able to break it.
We're not under the law, we're under grace. And we're not to
live and serve the flesh. We're not to serve the flesh.
May God enable us. to save ourselves from this untoward
generation. Well, that's the message of the
hour. Arise and depart. May the Lord
bless these things to your heart. I don't want to sound like you
know, and I think to some of these young people sometimes,
it may appear that they say, well, you know, if we had a younger
man preaching to us, maybe the sermons wouldn't be so gloomy.
Maybe they wouldn't be so gloomy. Well, I'll tell you what, I'll
just tell you right now, my friend, that if a man's worth his salt,
he'll get right down to the bottom, just like old Solomon in Ecclesiastes
1 and 2. He'll get right down on the bottom
with you. He'll take you right down there and face reality. The best thing you could do today
is to face reality. It's the best thing you could
do. And stop this business of going around with blinders on
your eyes, only seeing what you want to see. Take a good look,
my friend. This world is exactly like we
described it. It's a waste, howling wilderness. And you'll find no rest here.
Arise and depart. Father, in the name of Jesus,
We commit this message into your hands and we pray that thou will
use it. Oh God stir hearts and we pray
that some poor lost soul may look up today unto the Lord Jesus
Christ and as that dove came back to the ark and lit on that
ark that place of safety, place of rest, Father, may they come
to Christ and may they find rest this day, this hour, in Him. Father, just speak to Thy people
and may this be a day, this inclement day, on the outside, when they
shall see a glimmer of hope for their situation, when they'll
understand a little more why it is that God has never allowed
them to really find peace and rest in this old troubled world. May they just say in their hearts
today, thank God I've learned something today, and that there's
peace in Jesus and peace in my eternal home. And rest there,
but none here below. God help us. We pray in Jesus'
name. Amen.