[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-1028":3},"OCTOBER 28\r\nBut God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he\r\nloved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us\r\ntogether with Christ ... and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Eph. 2:4-6).\r\nThis is our rightful place, to be \"seated in heavenly places in\r\nChrist Jesus,\" and to \"sit still\" there. But how few there are who\r\nmake it their actual experience! How few, indeed think even that it is possible for them to \"sit still\" in these \"heavenly places\" In\r\nthe everyday life of a world so full of turmoil as this.\r\nWe may believe perhaps that to pay a little visit to these heavenly places on Sundays, or now and then in times of spiritual\r\nexaltation, may be within the range of possibility; but to be\r\nactually \" seated\" there every day and all day long is altogether another matter, and yet it is very plain that it is for Sundays and week-days as well.\r\nA quiet spirit Is of Inestimable value in carrying on outward\r\nactivities; and nothing so hinders the working of the hidden\r\nspiritual forces, upon which, after all, our success in everything really depends, as a spirit of unrest and anxiety.\r\nThere is immense power in stillness. A great saint once said, \"AD\r\nthings come to him who knows how to trust and be silent\" The words   are pregnant with meaning. A knowledge of this fact would immensely change our ways of working. Instead of restless struggles, we would    \"sit down\" inwardly before the Lord, and would let the Divine\r\nforces of His Spirit work out in silence the ends to which we\r\naspire. You may not see or feel the operations of this silent\r\nforce, but be assured it is always working mightily, and will work for you, if you only get your spirit still enough to be carried\r\nalong by the currents of its power. Hannah Whitall Smith.\r\nThere is a point of rest\r\nAt the great center of the cyclone's force, A silence at its secret source;\r\nA little child might slumber undisturbed, Without the ruffle of one fair curl,\r\nIn that strange, central calm, amid the mighty whirl.\r\nIt is your business to learn to be peaceful and safe in God in every situation.",1783499793985]