A Quiet Heart

John 14:1

• Let not your heart be troubled: 
• you believe in God, 
• believe also in me. 

Bearing in his own body the sins of the world, Jesus had sufficient compassion and love and sympathy and understanding to turn to the wretched man who was there being crucified with him.

My greatest need in this world is the need of what is called a quiet heart.

The claim of the gospel is not only that it can give me a quiet heart, but also that nothing else can do it.

Fatalism, psychology, stoicism, resignation, mysticism, optimism - all these views simply help me postpone my problems, they do not solve them; and none of them can give me real joy.

Our Lord brought his disciples face-to-face with the very worst, whereas all the other teachings and philosophies try to hide the worst from us.

I do not believe that the whole trouble is my physical flesh.  I know that the trouble is in my spirit.

The Holy Spirit dwells within me and reveals and explains things and energizes and empowers and enables me.

I do not care what it is that makes me restless and ill at ease. 

• It may be the possibility of war, 
• it may be illness, 
• it may be business troubles, 
• it may be my own weakness morally in the realm of the will.

Whatever it is, whatever is troubling and making me unhappy,  I can go to him about it. 

• He is the one who loved me enough to die for me. 
• He said, “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). 

There is no need for me to be unhappy and restless. 

• I believe in God. 
• I believe in the Son of God, 
• the Lord Jesus Christ who came on earth to deliver me from that very thing and 
• who has removed every barrier between me and God and 
• who can give me rest and peace here and now.

Adapted Excerpt From

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

Martyn Lloyd-Jones