Fearlessly Courageous
Desk of Dennis Piller
9/29/2022
Stand… and Wait… in the Midst of the Storm!
As we all wait on this massive hurricane to pass over, we can do nothing but try and find a safe place and wait for the storm to pass. After we have made all the preparations for the storm, we have nothing to do but wait it out. Many will be without power and be homeless, but till the eye of the storm passes, they must wait. When you have done all else… STAND. Eph 6:10
How many things do we automatically do because WE KNOW what to do? We didn’t ask God, our spouses, or anyone else. We just do it! Of course, that doesn’t take into account WHAT GOD WANTS… Maybe He’s ok with it but maybe he’s not. How would we even know because 1. We never asked. 2. We never waited for an answer. 3. We grew impatient and just pushed through and did it. (It wasn’t a bad thing… It was actually good) Then why not ask God’s direction, wisdom, or timing? Are we just TOO INDEPENDENT? Is that what prodigals do? Have we walked out again from under His umbrella of protection? What does that look like to our children or those around us?
Why is it that we almost need to be forced to wait… before we wait?
Like waiting out this hurricane around us because we are powerless to do anything else. God wants to teach us to wait…
He wants us to learn to wait on him. For direction, for safety, for power.
Here are two borrowed pieces to dwell on.
God never says to us, "Stand still," or "Sit still," or "Be still," unless He is going to do something. This is our trouble in regard to our Christian life; we want to do something to be Christians when we need to let Him work in us and ultimately through us.
Do you know how still you have to be when your likeness is being taken?
Now God has one eternal purpose concerning us, and that is that we should be like His Son; and in order that this may be so, we must be passive. We hear so much about activity, maybe we need to know what it is to be quiet.
–Crumbs
Sit still, my daughter! Just sit calmly still!
Nor deem these days–these waiting days–as ill!
The One who loves thee best, who plans thy way,
Hath not forgotten thy great need today!
And, if He waits, 'tis sure He waits to prove
To thee, His tender child, His heart's deep love.
Sit still, my daughter! Just sit calmly still!
Thou longest much to know thy dear Lord's will!
While anxious thoughts would almost steal their way
Corrodingly within, because of His delay
Persuade thyself in simple faith to rest
That He, who knows and loves, will do the best.
Sit still, my daughter! Just sit calmly still!
Nor move one step, not even one, until
His way hath opened. Then, ah then, how sweet!
How glad thy heart, and then how swift thy feet
Thy inner being then, ah then, how strong!
And waiting days not counted then too long.
Sit still, my daughter! Just sit calmly still!
What higher service couldst thou for Him fill?
'Tis hard! ah yes! But the choicest things must cost!
For lack of losing all how much is lost!
'Tis hard, 'tis true! But then–He giveth grace
To count the hardest spot the sweetest place.
–J. D. Smith
Lord, calm me and help me to let go and wait, so you can take the wheel from me. Help me to stand and wait on your direction and voice. Lord, I don’t want to do this on my own anymore. I believe your way is THE WAY.
Help me to stand and TRUST YOU FIRST!
Meditate on the writings above
and thank God for protecting us in the midst of the storm we are in.
Lauren Daigle Rescue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYR0xP1j4PY&list=PL3oW2tjiIxvTstLS9GlgaT_mqONT0WVDw
