My topic is a quiet heart and a sub-topic is confidence in God, a quiet heart and a

sub-topic is confidence in God, a quiet heart and confidence in God.

This is something that the Lord has been opening to me for some time,

the need for a quiet heart. How can we find it? How can we quiet our hearts before God?

I had been thinking and praying about this matter for a long time, before a memory suddenly clicked

in my mind that I had completely forgotten. One day back in 1948, when I was a college student

at Wheaton, a friend named Sarah Spiro and I were messing around on the piano, as we often did in the dormitory lounge.

Sarah was a great pianist. I gave her four little lines that had just come to me, and she set them to music. These were the four lines.

Lord, give to me a quiet heart that does not ask to understand, but confidence steps forward

in the darkness guided by thy hand.

When that memory came to me, I realized that I had been praying that since I was 21 years

old. God really had been answering that

prayer. I think he began answering it way back when I began to pray that, when I began to pray

that, but he doesn't do things in our time schedule, does he? Very often it is, what it seems to us, a very slow process. And probably the

reason is that we are, what Jesus said, fools, and slow of heart to believe. I have a strong

hunch that there are many of you today who are really longing for quietness

in your lives.

There isn't very much of that in the world, is there.

It's very difficult to escape noise.

You get in an elevator and you've got noise.

You walk down in a quiet town of Magnolia, which is where we live, and somebody will be painting a house.

His truck will be 100 yards away, and he's got the stereo blasting the entire neighborhood.

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