Be Still and Know that I am God Psalm 46:10
My Utmost For His Highest
In the face of obscurity, in the face of ridicule, in the face of failure hanging onto the word of God will always bring about the victorious life.
My biggest fear was never that God would not come through for me, no He had always done that. Experience had shown that God was capable of doing the thing He had promised. My biggest fear was the humiliation of failing and causing others to see that this failure was not only me but Jesus Himself.
The fear of being pointed out as the one who managed single-handedly to turn people away from the Lord instead of towards Him because my failings have proven once again that He is not capable of producing the results that I had touted to one and all. Erroneous thinking on all levels. Just pride.
Faced with the same kinds of fears today, makes me know that this is a new threshold of learning, a new era of my spiritual walk where holding on and hanging on are not just about knowing those traits. No, in actual fact, I have to be still.
When you come to the place where you have to be still because you have no other choices, then you know that you have come to the precipice of a spiritual breakthrough, spiritual spurt of growth.
Knowing who God is comes with time, experience and a deep understanding of who this powerful Person is. That knowledge lodges deep in the soul and mind bringing about changes wrought out of purification and painful experience.
Be still. One of the hardest, one of the simplest things to do with yourself. Be still and know. Nothing like this exhortation to trust and believe against all odds that God will do the thing He promised to do in you, through you and to you.