Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?
Tao Te Ching
I need prayer and mostly time in prayer. I need to find the stillness that comes with prayer. Right now, I am waiting for the mud to settle and the water to clear. Again, I am struggling with the same problem I did this fall. The decision time has come and I can't be still enough to figure it out. I hear one thing from my hubby, a different from my parents, my gut changes daily, and somewhere in there is a small tiny voice that I know is speaking to me. God is speaking to me. God is moving and I am having trouble listening. The problem is not that God needs to speak louder, it's that I need to listen. I need to prayer for the desire to sit quietly each day so that I can hear the Voice. It's the desire to listen to the will of God.
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Words so true. I think of Jacob, wrestling with the angel of the Lord. He couldn't live on another's experience with God - he had to know God and His will - himself. Wrestling is good for the soul. Bless you!
ReplyDeleteI love the words - Be Still - as stillness is not something cultivated in our world. And then the verse, Be still and know that I am God. Not be still and think, or wonder, or ponder, but KNOW.
ReplyDeleteBlessings to you...and may you hear His voice.
Rachel