The Old Restlessness is Gone

“But let us look at it also from the standpoint of the Christian man having peace within himself. Not only peace between him and God, who is outside him, but peace within himself! This can be divided into negative and positive aspects. Negatively, it means the end of the old restlessness. The first thing that happens to a man when he becomes a Christian is that he gets rid of the restlessness which characterized his old life.  Restlessness is always a main characteristic of the life of sin. We find a perfect description of the matter in Isaiah chapter 57 verse 20: ‘The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters throw up mire and dirt.’ Such is man in sin.”  –D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones “Romans 8:5-17” p. 46