“Be still know that
I am God,” He speaks to your whirling mind (Psalm 46:10a, NLT). If you will be
still, and dwell upon Him instead of your problem or worry, you will be filled
with His faithful presence instead of consumed with fear of something you
cannot handle. In any worrisome state, it is possible to be filled with fear
that causes one of two things. Fear will either drive you to self-destructive
despair where you retreat from life, or it will cause you to try to change
circumstances or yourself without letting God have control. If you retreat
because of fear, you isolate yourself from His healing hand. If you try to fix
circumstances within your own strength without completely surrendering to Him, you
will fail. The peace for which you desperately yearn is out of your grasp
because you try to make happen what you perceive you need.
“The Lord’s arm
is not too weak to save you, nor is his ear too deaf to hear you call,” (Isaiah
59:1, NLT). Your attempts to save yourself are useless. In fact, they get in
the way of His ability to help you. Without surrender, you will sink into the
depths of your own despair. So why do you fight your rescuer’s attempts to pull
you to safety? What you perceive to be safety has become your own destruction. When
you surrender your fight to control what is beyond your ability, He hears your
cry for help.
Often the
struggles of life overwhelm, and you feel like the psalmist who wrote "all
thy waves and thy billows are gone over me,” (Psalm 42:7, KJV). But the same
psalmist also wrote, “He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the
miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings."(Psalm
40:2, KJV). Consider the wonder of that truth. He is your safety for He rescues
you from the pit. He is your security because He sets your feet upon His
rock‒solid foundation. He is your guide in all things because He directs the
way that you go.
This is a
beautiful picture of what He wishes for you—to save you from
that which destroys your life and to impart trust in His faithful and
unchanging love. If you will allow Him to direct your steps and not question
His control, you will learn trust. You will continually give Him your worries
and fears. You will be still and rest in Him—knowing that He alone is your
deliverer and peace.
© 2017 Lynn Lacher
www.lynnlacher.com
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