AN UNTROUBLED HEART

AN UNTROUBLED HEART

The Lord assures His feeble disciples, saying, “Let not your heart be troubled”. A troubled heart prevents the working out of divine thoughts, and the Lord had in His mind to unfold divine thoughts at that time, as indeed always. He would induce a suitable receptive state, an untroubled heart, among those present. “Let not your heart be troubled”, He says, “ye believe in God” — they had gone that far, He had induced that in them, faith in God; He had indeed said to them, “Have faith in God”.

It is a great point as to our general position here below that everything comes under God. Many things arise daily to trouble our hearts, international matters, business matters, matters in connection with our professions, illness and so forth, all tending to rob the Lord of material He wishes to use to work out the divine thought. So He says, “Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe on God, believe also on me”.