I’ll be brief this week. I’ll need to be; God was. If you’ve been reading this devotional for even the smallest amount of time, you will have noticed that God has provided a lesson in just about any circumstance I have found myself in. Actually, I’m convinced that He has provided a lesson in every circumstance, but I didn’t always see it, or I just plain ignored it.
My eyes and ears worked overtime this past week to see and hear what God had in mind for me, and with my senses on high alert, I almost missed a most obvious lesson.
God was busy being quiet.
I almost missed Him in the silence. I nearly mistook his silence for inactivity. His being quiet was my cue to be quiet. His being still was my cue to be still. Why? God knew He was going to perform an emergency, spiritual battlefield type of “heart and soul” surgery on me - the type of surgery where the circumstances don’t permit anesthetics. In His wisdom He knew that it would be better for me, His patient, to be still during the procedure. Any further wiggling and squirming on my part would only have made it more difficult for me, not Him. He knew that even under the best of circumstances it was going to hurt. He didn’t want me to make it worse for myself.
Psalm 37:7 tells us to be still in the presence of the Lord and wait patiently for Him to act.
I understand that at a deeper level now. I hope you do too.
Grace to you.
Dave Paukner
