AND AARON HELD HIS PEACE

 EVENING DEVOTION

SEPTEMBER 29

 

Leviticus 10:3

And Aaron held his peace.

 
He was in deep trouble.
 
His trial was peculiarly great.
 
It was death.
 
The death of two sons at once.
 
It was instantaneous death.
 
In an act of presumptions sin.
 
It was in the presence of the people, as an example of Jehovah’s jealousy and wrath.
 
It was without time for repentance, or any knowledge of their eternal state.
 
But God said, “I will be glorified, and Aaron held his peace.”
 
This was opposed to murmuring, to fretting, to questioning the right or justice of God, or refusing to be comforted.
 
It was submission to the Lord’s will, springing 

  from a knowledge of his righteousness—

  from a supreme love to God—

  from carnal reason being brought into subjection—

  from a sense of desert.
 
My friend, this subject speaks to us.
 
It says, “In your most painful trials, imitate the saint of the Lord.”
 
It reproves all our complains, and questioning the Lord’s love and mercy.
 
It comforts us, by showing us that the greatest saints have sometimes had the greatest trials.
 
It speaks caution, and says, “Beware how you trifle, or presume, for Jehovah is a jealous God.”
 
“The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.”
 

In all thy dealings, Lord, with me,

O stop the murmuring groan!

Or let my only answer be,

“Father, thy will be done!”

 
James Smith