A friend of mine had asked if I was no longer blogging and I explained that I had been busy with my family and the seminary class that I am taking and just had not made the time to write. This friend then texted me and basically reminded me that God is always at work around me and that I should share what it is that God is teaching me or showing me.

God is teaching me to wait and be still before him. I sang a song last Sunday, here at my church, entitled "Be Still and Know" by Steven Curtis Chapman. The NIV version translates Psalm 46:10 "Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth". Warren Wiersbe states the the phrase "Be still" or as in other translations "cease", literally means "Take your hands off! Relax!".

This song and understanding has helped me to understand my response to God in life. He is in control, I'm not. He has the plan, he reveals it day by day. If I do it all, I get the credit and not God. So I need to let God be God and let him do what it is he wants to do and then he will be exalted among the nations and the earth. He is worthy of me taking my hands off of my destiny and the control that I want to have. I need to let him have it all.

There is a responsibility I have. This verse doesn't speak of not doing anything. I must be about prayer, Bible reading and study, meditating on the Word of God and service. I also must be obedient and faithful to him and his word.

In all of life we need to be still, take our hands off and relax; rest in the Lord and let him do what it is that he desires to do for his glory and our good.