“In repentance and rest is your salvation,
in quietness and trust is your strength,
but you would have none of it.
You said, ‘No, we will flee on horses.’
Therefore you will flee!
You said, ‘We will ride off on swift horses.’
Therefore your pursuers will be swift!
This passage is from Isaiah 30.15-16. It speaks about how Israel were told by their God to not go and look for security in alliances with other nations, but to do nothing, and to trust in Him and His power. For,
Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you;
therefore he will rise up to show you compassion.
For the LORD is a God of justice.
Blessed are all who wait for him!
I'm finding this hard to apply to my life. I'm in a situation in which the way forward is not clear. The ball is not in my court, and I find that really hard. I feel a constant temptation to take control and make things happen, to look to my resources and the resources of those around me.
How do I reconcile this waiting on God, this quietness and trust, with His desire for His people to not be passive?
From what I can see in Scripture, it is coming before Him, and laying my desires at His feet, acknowledging my utter dependence upon Him, my inability to do anything apart from Him and crying for help.
How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you. Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” Isaiah 30.19-21
He will guide those who trust in Him with ALL of their hearts, not just when they understand what He is doing in a particular situation. (Prov 3.5-6).
Psalm 33
16 No king is saved by the size of his army;
no warrior escapes by his great strength.
17 A horse is a vain hope for deliverance;
despite all its great strength it cannot save.
18 But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him,
on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,
19 to deliver them from death
and keep them alive in famine.
20 We wait in hope for the LORD;
he is our help and our shield.
21 In him our hearts rejoice,
for we trust in his holy name.
22 May your unfailing love be with us, LORD,
even as we put our hope in you.
Praise Him for His unFAILING love.
For in him we live and move and have our being.
Acts 17:28
Utter dependence. His breath fills up my lungs.
As for me, this is a battle to surrender my will and my desire for control to Him who's story this is.
Listening now to Christy Nockels's "In Your Hands".
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