Be Still

"Be still and know that I am God"

Some devotional books that I've been reading (again), really jumped out and grasped my heart this morning. Just wanted to share them.

From Streams in the Desert:

"I do not believe we have even begun to understand the wonderful power there is in being still. We are in such a hurry, always doing, that we are in danger of not allowing God the opportunity to work. You may be sure that God will never say to us "Stand still", "Sit still", or "Be still," unless He is going to do something. This is our problem regarding the christian life: we want to do something to be Christians, instead of allowing Him to work in us."

From My Utmost for His Highest:

"Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"- Are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket- to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served?"

That one hit me real hard, I don't know if I am ready to be that "poured out". My spirit is willing, but my flesh is not. Lord, help me.

And lastly, from one of the most blessed little books that I adore so much called 'God Calling' by two listeners. Each day is something that the Lord Jesus spoke to these woman who remain anonymous. Here is today's entry:

"Walk with Me. I will teach you. Listen to Me and I will speak. Continue to meet Me, in spite of all the opposition and every obstacle, in spite of days when you may hear no voice, and there may come no intimate heart-to-heart telling.
As you persist in this, and make a life-habit of it, in many marvellous ways I will reveal My will to you. You shall have more sure knowing of both the present and the future. But that will be only the reward of the regular coming to meet Me.
Life is a school. There are many teachers. Not to everyone do I come personally. Believe literally that the problems and difficulties of your lives can be explained by Me more clearly and effectually than by any other."

Just give Him a chance. Call out to Him. He so desperately wants to speak to us in our present lives.