Be Still and Know that I am God

Image result for tired of fighting let God fight for you images It sounds simple, doesn't it?  Be still and know that I am God, but so often we want to take control, because, if  we don't do  something, how will it get done?  Is that you?  It's me more often  than I care to count.  The children  of Israel had seen so many wonders in Egypt.  They  saw the plagues on the Egyptian people; they  complained and God rained manna from heaven  for them.  They cried because there was no water, and God gave them water from  a rock, and yet when they saw Pharaoh and this army pursuing behind them and the sea in front of them, they cried out to Moses, and Moses simply says, you only need to be still, stop complaining, the Lord will fight for you.

We can read Exodus and count the number of complaints and think, how did the Lord put up with such a complaining people, didn't they understand that the Lord would fight for them?  Yet how often are we in situations where we think we have no way out.  Maybe bills are piling up and no wage increases come.  The children are sick yet again and the insurance has high deductibles.  It might be we are simply tired of doing the same thing over and over again and feel what is the point?  All those things have happened to me at some point, and like the children of Israel, I did my share of complaining, but when I just was still before the Lord and waited for Him, He gave me my  way out.  No, I didn't suddenly find money on the ground to pay bills, but the Lord gave me 3 violin students. Over time He increased those students.  My children still had to go the doctor, but doctors arranged for payment plans.  Long ago, when I was young and my first child had been in the hospital during his first year of life than he had been out of it.  Yet, the doctor, who had eleven children of his own, let me make bread for his family to pay off his bill, and the hospital cut the bill in half.

Being still says, Lord, I don't know how  you're going to work this out, but I trust you to do it.  You've given us so many examples in the Bible where you've done that for others.  You are the same yesterday, today, and forever, so I am going to trust you in this situation.  Is it easy?  Absolutely  not, but when I have stopped fighting the Lord, I find the greatest peace.


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