I found this in my drafts and decided to publish it. I’m not sure why I didn’t publish it at the time except that I might have felt someone would think it was about them. Â I can’t remember what triggered these thoughts or my desire to record them, but I can tell you this is Truth!
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I am slow to speak. I am slow to act. But that doesn’t mean I don’t care.
It means that I have learned that striving against the onslaught, against that moving car, will leave me broken and damaged.
I know, to some, when I am choosing to give my concerns to the Lord and leave it there, they only see my inactivity. They have judged me for it and found me lacking. But I think it is much harder to see what is happening around me and trust that the Lord IS in control of it all. And, that all of it, good and bad, is for MY BEST.  I am choosing to not run in twelve different directions and I am choosing to not argue with those who can’t be convinced.  I am picking fewer and fewer battles and letting the Lord have more and more.
I find comfort in these verses:
Psalm 46:10 “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Psalm 37:7 “Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways,when they carry out their wicked schemes.”
Exodus 14:14 “The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”
Proverbs 20:22 “Do not say, “I’ll pay you back for this wrong!” Wait for the LORD, and he will deliver you.”
Psalm 130:5 “I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope.”
Micah 7:7 “But as for me, I watch in hope for the LORD, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.”
