Saturday, October 27, 2007

Quietness

…in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.

 

Isaiah 30:15b

 

 

There will be times in our walk with God in which we may come into a place of quiet. It is a place in which you face a stillness that may leave you at a loss if you do not understand that it is God who has brought you to this place. During these times, God is calling us aside to fashion something new in us.

 

It is an adventure of sorts designed to call us to deeper roots of prayer and faith. For some it may be a new and an uncertain place, like that of traveling to a new destination for the very first time.

Most people plan and orchestrate where they will go, what they will do, and for how long they will stay at their new destination. But for people in whom God is performing a deeper work, He brings them into a time of quietness that seems almost eerie. They cannot say what God is doing, but they just know that He is doing a work that cannot be explained to themselves or to others.

 

You see, this time is the adventure that never ends. It is like traveling to a new destination and experiencing all the grand and unique things at each and every stop along the way. When we are in the quietness we will know it, because it is a place of peace, of knowing that God is doing something.

 

Quietness allows us to see, that whether we plan our lives, or know what God is doing or not, that He will move many times in our lives regardless, just as that of leaving one destination to go to yet another destination.

 

The quietness and not knowing is the adventure in Christ that we are all looking for—it takes less energy and involves less of our flesh. Learn to be in the quietness and let trust be your strength, as your mind and heart listen and absorb all that God is doing in the scene and unseen.

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