DAILY RESTORING MY SOUL

“He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul…” (Psalm 23:2-3a NKJV)

In the Christian life it is more than passing significance to observe that those who are most serene, most confident, and most able to cope with life’s complexities often are those who rise early each day to feed on God’s Word. It is in the quiet, early hours of the morning that they are led beside the quiet, still waters where they imbibe the very life of Christ for the day. This is much more than mere figure of speech. It is practical reality. The biographies of the great men and women of God repeatedly point out how the secret of success in their spiritual life was attributed to the “quiet time” of each morning. There, alone, still, waiting for the Master’s voice, one is led gently to the place where, as the old hymn puts it, “The still dews of His spirit can be dropped into my life and soul.”

-- W. Phillip Keller, as quoted in “In This Quiet Place: Discovering the Pleasures of Prayer”

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