My heart is waiting…waiting to know what His will is for our lives. I want to be surrendered, fully dependent upon him…but my heart cries out to know the reason for the struggle…the reason for the unknown. We are going through a lot of changes right now…and I can’t share all the details at this point, but I wanted to share this thought.
I was encouraged today in my devotions with Exodus 14:14-15. As the Israelites begin to fear the attack of the Egyptians following their recent departure from Egypt, Moses reminds the people with this thought that stood out to me so powerfully: “‘The Lord will fight for you while you keep silent.’ Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the sons of Israel to go forward.’”
The Lord will fight for you, if…you keep silent! Amazing. The Lord does not call for fretting or anxiety….but quietness before Him. God honors the man who waits on the Lord – who offers up a humble cry and plea for help but then remains silent. We are to surrender! He will do it. He will fight for us. The next step is to go forward! Take a step of faith and see the Lord open the red sea! I felt this was just what we need at this point. We can wallow in the what if’s, but God is calling us to keep silent and go forward.
I know this is old, but I just wanted to thank you for this. I really needed to hear this in my life right now.
Thank you for that post. I just discovered your blog, and am already blessed. I am in a very difficult period of waiting – waiting on God to bring Salvation to my husband. Combined with your words on “shame or gain” this is what I needed to hear. I cannot make my husband see Who God really is…only God can do that. And He needs me to shut up a bit, so His voice can be heard. Again, thank you!
Thank you for this. It has really struck me. I am going on a silent retreat soon and I am going to take this with me to focus on. I have a number of things I have been fighting and I have to remember that it is God who overcomes, not me. So I will be silent (for 3 long days!) and then move foreward.
(I found your blog a little while ago. I enjoy reading it and find it really encouraging – thank you)
We’re also in a place of lots of potential changes & scary unknowns, a verse that jumped out at me (while surfing blogs, of all things) last week is Jer 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
I’m SO clinging to that promise that God does have plans for us through all this, and they will not harm us . . .
i remember michael doing a message a few years ago: God’s will, God’s way and God’s whatever. i adore you. i am God’s biggest squirmy when it comes to those tension points that exist in the “wait.”
on another note: love that table and chair.
I just read that too! That’s something I’ve been struggling with lately, as well…depending on the Lord. Not in the same vein as you, though. I’ve been reading Wm. MacDonald’s “True Discipleship” and it has really challenged me in the whole area of faith/letting God provide. What do I need to give up in order to let God work? Should I just go and give away all my savings for school (college/university)?! How can I live like this is wartime, which it is? How do I let God provide when my parents are providing for me already?
“Wait continually for your God.” (Hos 12.6)