So I'm sure you can imagine the amount of dismay I experienced when I started to feel that God was very specifically telling me to "be still" over the last week. It started with a very specific scripture from Exodus 14:14 that says, "The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace." (Hold your peace = be quiet)
Then it turned to Psalm 4:4&5 that says, "Be angry, and do not sin. Meditate within your heart on your bed, and be still. Selah. Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord."
And that made me think of another scripture: "Be still, and know that I am God..." Psalm 46:10.
Be still, you say? Really? God is, of course, right in that I need to be still. But it is more than just being still. It is about allowing God to be God...and taking that a step farther, recognizing that He IS God:
- I believe that God wants me to allow Him to defend me (something I have been hearing since about July of last year) and not try to defend myself. ("The Lord will fight for you...")
- I believe that God wants me to trust Him with every aspect of my life.
- I believe that God wants me to literally be still. Yes, even that.
- I believe that God wants me to get to know Him at a deeper, more intimate level than ever before.
- I believe that God wants to speak to me clearly, directing my path.
- I believe that God is moving, that He never actually stopped, even though I did.
- I believe that God is God...and that He is going to use me in a way that only He could create.
- I believe that God is inviting me to the depths to show me a love that I have never known.
- I believe...
"Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults. Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous (defiant) sins; Let them not have dominion over me. Than I shall be blameless, and I shall be innocent of great (much) transgression. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, Oh Lord, my strength (rock) and my Redeemer." Psalm 19:12-14
"I will praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High." Psalm 9:1-2
"One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple...Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice! Have mercy also upon me, and answer me. When You said, "Seek My face," my heart said to You, "Your face, Lord, I will seek. Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn Your servant away in anger; You have been my help; Do not leave me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation." Psalm 27:4 & 7-9
"You are my hiding place; you shall preserve me from trouble; you shall surround me with songs of deliverance." Psalm 32:7
"My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?...Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; all Your waves and billows have gone over me. The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me - a prayer to the God of my life." Psalm 42:2 & 7 - 8
"O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water. So I have looked for You in the sanctuary to see Your power and Your glory. Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You. Thus I will bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness (abundance) and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips. I will remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches. Because You have been my help, therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice. My soul follows close behind You; your right hand upholds me." Psalm 63:1-8
I am listening God...and I am responding...have Your way...I am Yours... Amen
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