Sit still

It is so true. God is able to best use us when we are willing to sit and listen. To sit still and wait.... wait on Him. We all think we're adults (or adults in training), but really we are all children. We have tendencies to become anxious about tomorrow, unable to sit still, have shortness in patience and are unwilling to cooperate sometimes. We have minds of our own and don't always make the best decisions. So when told to sit still, I don't know about you, but I just want to get up and run! But it is true. That moment that you find yourself helpless and tired of trying, that moment when you allow yourself to sit still and look up towards your Fatner in heaven... He will deliver. He will rescue your heart. 

I'm thankful to have learned even the tiniest meaning behind sitting still. And listening, oh boy, that's a whole other lesson to be learned. But I'm slowly getting there. And it's a whole other world. 

Inward Stillness

"Their strength is to sit still." (Isa. 30:7).

In order really to know God, inward stillness is absolutely necessary. I remember when I first learned this. A time of great emergency had risen in my life, when every part of my being seemed to throb with anxiety, and when the necessity for immediate and vigorous action seemed overpowering; and yet circumstances were such that I could do nothing, and the person who could, would not stir.

For a little while it seemed as if I must fly to pieces with the inward turmoil, when suddenly the still small voice whispered in the depths of my soul, "Be still, and know that I am God." The word was with power, and I hearkened. I composed my body to perfect stillness, and I constrained my troubled spirit into quietness, and looked up and waited; and then I did "know" that it was God, God even in the very emergency and in my helplessness to meet it; and I rested in Him. It was an experience that I would not have missed for worlds; and I may add also, that out of this stillness seemed to arise a power to deal with the emergency, that very soon brought it to a successful issue. I learned then effectually that my "strength was to sit still."  --Hannah Whitall Smith

from: http://www.crosswalk.com/devotionals/desert/