He Will Quiet you

"He Will Quiet You...."
By Gracie

By The Grace of God M/M

The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing." Zephaniah 3:17

I have always loved this verse! Yet I didn’t fully understand what this verse would mean to me over the course of time. Looking at this verse, notice the anchoring truths God wants to show us. He let’s us know that He is with us, that He is able to save, and that He takes GREAT delight in us. Then we read, "He will quiet you with His love" and it is this part that gets me.

What exactly does this mean? Well, I admit that it can mean different things to different people. I don’t assume to know where each of you are right now, but I do know that wherever it is, He is able to use this verse to bring about a peace, a trust, and a quiet assurance in His love, as you trust in Him.

For me, it means being tempered, being brought to a place of balance. In the dictionary tempered means, "brought to a place of hardness" and temperance means "brought to moderation". I believe that there is a dual truth being taught here. This is about being softened and hardened. Learning that there is a need for both and letting God soften what is hard & harden what is soft within me. It requires a listening ear, a willing heart, a handmaiden soul that is bridled by her Saviours lead. I do not profess to get it all the time, for I am in the process of being tempered. And I suspect that it will take whatever lifetime I have left, to learn the art of tempered passion, tempered boldness, tempered speech, tempered action...being a tempered me!

Don’t mistake being tempered as being held back (for you wild ponies, out there) but rather, look at being tempered as the necessary ingredient for producing wisdom. We cannot have one without the other. Wisdom requires the existence of temperence. Knowledge, understanding & discernment, all operating within the boundry of temperance, allows wisdom to flourish!

Of course, the rear guard of this verse, "He will rejoice over you with singing", shows us the JOY with which, He rejoices! He assures us that He is with us, that He is able to save us, that He takes great delight in us, that He will quiet us and that He not only rejoices over us, but does it singing!!! What a picture!!! What assurance He wants us to have in Him! He reveals Himself, just so we can KNOW Him!

Here’s to being tempered...!