How Can Man Rest?

July 14

Because He loves mankind, the Sovereign Lord of the universe has devised a plan of salvation that was established before time began. In Revelation 14:8, John the Revelator gives us a glimpse into the corridors of Heaven where our Triune God took counsel with Himself regarding His beloved creation, whom He knew would fall into sin.

Here the “beloved disciple” (John 21:20-24) said, “…the Lamb of God (Jesus) has been slain from the foundation of the earth.” Because believers are, “…precious in My sight and have been honorable…” (God says He has) “…loved us,” Isaiah 43:4. He has established a way of escape from the calamity that is swallowing the world into its pit of sin and deception.

How can errant man appropriate the method of deliverance that our Sovereign God has devised for his benefit? What must he do to attain salvation from the ever-worsening free-fall from the truth of God into the quagmire of falsehood? The prophet, in Isaiah 30:15, offers an insight into the plan of escape devised before the world began.

“This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: In repentance and in rest is your salvation; in quietness and in trust is your strength.” How can man rest when everything familiar is changing, when all he’s trusted has failed? He can, through faith, place his trust in Jesus who will give him the victory (I John 5:4).