Keeping in Tune With God - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2025

He will rejoice over thee with joy; He will rest in His love.
Zephaniah 3:17

Keeping in Tune With God
The Christian cannot be in a difficulty for which Christ is not sufficient, nor on a long, dark road where he cannot find Him enough. God's rest is where He can find perfect rest. Do you think God could find rest in this world? Have you ever found rest in it? Though He was perfect love above all the evil, yet He could not rest. When the Jews charged the Lord Jesus with breaking the Sabbath, He says that sweet and lovely word: "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work" (Jn. 5:17). Could love rest in the midst of woe?

When all the saints are perfectly conformed to Christ in glory, when, as is expressed in Zephaniah (and we may apply it to ourselves), God "will rest in His love," He will see of the travail of His soul and be satisfied. There will be nothing that hinders the enjoyment of the love and glory of God. Oh, the blessed future that is before us! The full result of redemption will be accomplished, and God will rest, because His love has no more to do to satisfy Himself.

God wants our hearts to be in tune with His in our everyday life. He wants that. God says, "Your heart and Mine want to have a little talk together. I am going to show you what is in your heart, and to show you that I know it." Do you think that, if all that is in your heart is not brought out to Him, it will be all right between you? Do you think a father likes to have his heart all different from his child's heart? He likes that the whole spirit, soul, and mind of his child be suited to his mind. God passes us through the wilderness that we may learn this. You often see a true Christian not knowing where he is at his deathbed, because he has not had everything out with God day by day.

J. N. Darby