Funny thing about faith.
I am not good at just being. I am a do-er.
When I come to a struggle, I want a list of things to do. My brain goes into overload trying to find solid ground to stand on instead of the mire that is taking me down. And most of the time, I work myself into a bigger mess. You think I would learn. But, I haven’t.
I find myself in one of those places today.
Stuck.
Wishing desperately, I could find someone who could tell me what to do next.
But, the counsel that I have received tells me just to be.
To stop trying to jump through hoops and perform my way out of the struggle.
To quit trying to reason why I am here and strategize a way out.
To stop raking through my life looking for another reason that God won’t move.
Stuck.
And, yet…I don’t know how to be.
To just “be” sounds very spiritual to me. Deep. Reflective. Peaceful.
A picture of a place that appears on the resumes of the great cloud of witnesses that wonder when I will ever ‘get it.’
SO, today, I am wrestling with how to ‘be.’
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6 comments:
"With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding." Job 12:13
I have found that waiting on His wisdom alone can be hard but because He is sovereign is so much more worth it.
I'm praying for you. Listen as He whispers, "Be still, and know that I am God." Psalm 46:10
The question I've often wrestled with is: How do I "do" the command "be still"? It's a PROBLEM for a doer always looking for the next step, like myself. I can relate to this post. ;-)
So many cliche things to say right now. Instead I think I'll just sit over here and pray.
Lord, hush our minds, quiet our thoughts, calm our nerves, steady our walk, strengthen our steps, humble our hearts, we plead in Jesus' name, amen.
I struggle with the same. Situation after situation has seen me make a plan for how to deal, fix or cope. My 'plan' never works out the way I had envisioned and leads me to yet another place I didn't want to be. Praying for you to hold strong in just being.
We could be cut from the same cloth...a do-er, and I just taught a lesson on faith this past Sunday to a group of women. So often we are so busy struggling trying to make things work the way we want them too that we make it 10* worse. If we would just sit and listen for the voice of God, would we struggle so much? If we waited and listened, would we constantly wearing ourselves out and causing more problems for ourseles? What would happen if we sat quietly, waited on God and then simply followed where he led no questions asked? Choke down our pride and TRUSTED the hand that created us. I wonder what our lives would like. I just wonder...
Hang in there, girl!
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