Be still?

[1x1is1]

Be still.......or get out of the way.  Use the time that you are trying to do what only our Lord can do to fellowship with Him.  Let Him carry your heavy yoke.

[Guest]

Amen~!

[Persuaded]

This is such a difficult lesson!

Abraham was promised a son, waited (was "still") for ten years, then took matters into his own hands and used Hagar to create Isnmael. God didn't accept this effort, and Abraham had to "be still" for 13 more years until Isaac was given. We ALL build Ishmaels in our lives!

At the Cana wedding, the servants obeyed by filling the water pots, but Jesus did the "work" of turning it to wine. God's work is never the result of our work, but of our obedience.

Some are called to work pretty hard! Paul "wore out the shoe leather" in his ministry. But I've often wondered if his fateful return to Jerusalem was his own plan while God was telling him to be still and continue his gentile ministry. That might be a sticky subject to discuss with him in heaven!

[FreeinChrist]

King Jehoshaphat, and the nation of Judah, had three great armies, coming to destroy them, in II Chronicles 20.  Jehoshaphat being a very godly king, immediately when to the House of God,  II Chronicles 20:5-13, and prayed.  The answered came that the children of Judah, where not to be afraid or dismay, but realize that the battle was the Lord's, II Chronicles 20:15.  God even tells them to be still, they didn't need to fight at all, for the Lord was with them:  Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah, and Jerusalem, fear not nor be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them; for the LORD will be with you.  II Chronicles 20:17  When one know Jesus Christ as Savior the battle is no longer ours for God has won the battle/war for us, just as He had done for King Jehoshaphat, when God say be still, He stating just stand back and watch My Mighty Hand deliver you from your trouble, but being still can sometimes mean to sing joyfully as in the case with King Jehoshaphat, II Chronicles 20:21-22; but at other times to keep quiet and listen carefully for the still small voice of God, I King 19:11-13.

 

Usually in the middle of a great spiritual battle we truly need to be praising our God greatly.  But in a lot of cases after the victory, we need to be quiet and listen carefully for God's direction. For Jehoshaphat and Judah where in the middle of a great battle praising God; but Elijah, had just had a great victory overcoming Jezebel and the 450 false prophets, and after Jezebel threatened to kill him, he started to feel sorry for himself (boy do I know that feeling) so God had to get Elijah attention back on Him.

 

So IMO if in the middle of a battle being still is to praise God greatly for His upcoming deliverance, but if God has given me the victory it is time for me to carefully start to quietly seek Him.

 

So to be still could mean to wait, while praising God greatly or to wait in silence as God reveals His Awesome Power to save.

[enoob57]

Here we recognize a greatness of battle that we, the created of God, are witnesses to... It is the battle

of God and the highest created being distilled into our smallness as truth and lie! This Truth 'IS' God

in His Person >The Son< and by grace alone all have been invited to be filled with 'Truth'... The stillness

is the assurance that truth has never had any part with lie and lie can never have place but is confined to

the emptiness of place called the abyss where 'nothing' is turned into itself as the eternal place of the

'void' >of all truth< till judgement Then shall the wrath of God fill it with the burning lake of fire...

     Our job in the stillness 'is to wait upon God' Isa 40:31 ... this will involve all areas of activity in this

created place in service to God but the stillness remains a place where perfect peace abides 'It is the

nearness of God' and He 'IS' able to keep it still for He alone stands in the place where sin never was

and again in the place where it will never be... and we 'the born of God' must remain in this stillness by

faith born out from His Word ... it is the obedience in which we enter the stillness

Eph 4:27

27 Neither give place to the devil.

KJV

Love, Steven