Here's the Way to Have One

Do I want a quiet heart?  

• Here is the way to have one - to believe that God has come to me in the person of His Son.  
• I am not left to grope vainly in the dark.

When Jesus was dying and enduring that terrible agony upon the cross,

• even then he had time to speak to the thief dying at his side 
• and to tell him not to be troubled because he would be with him that day in paradise (Luke 23:39–43). 

There was never such a tender, gentle heart. 

• There was never one who had such compassion 
• and an eye for the suffering of those 
• who were off the trodden path. 
• There was never one who came down so low, 
• a friend of publicans and sinners.

He is still the same; he has not changed. 

• John in his vision on the Isle of Patmos saw him in his glory, and yet he was still the same. 
• He is still the same in my need, in my trouble, in my agony. 

When my heart is restless 

• and when I am troubled and when I am disturbed, 
• I must go to him. 

He said when he was here, “He that comes to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37), 

• and he is still the same. 
• He will understand me, 
• he will sympathize with me, 
• he will give me all I need, 
• and I will lose my trouble. 

He will give me his own peace, “which passes all understanding” (Philippians 4:7). “Believe in God, believe also in me.”

Then He said to Thomas, "Reach with your finger, and see my hands...be not faithless, but believing.  And Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"  John 20:27-28

Adapted Excerpt From

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

Martyn Lloyd-Jones