Last Summer
Psalm 37:7
“Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret.”
Be still~ That is something that I find hard to do. I can pray while driving, making supper, and while doing other things and spend time reading the Bible each day. But ‘being still?’ Now that is hard.
Wait patiently~ Wait…………..patiently? I’ve always thought that all I had to do was wait for an answer from God. But I need to learn to not only wait, but to also wait patiently, stop ‘nagging’ God, thinking He has forgotten. I’m trying to learn to pray constantly about whatever it is I am struggling with, knowing that God’s timing is perfect. This is what a friend told me when I wrote her about what I have been going through…..
“It’s like a story Corrie ten Boom tells. When she was a little girl in the Netherlands, her father went to Amsterdam every week on the train. Sometimes she went with him. He would always hand her her ticket right before they got on the train. In the same way, God gives us the strength we need right when we need it. Never too early and never too late.”
Do not fret~ Ah, that may be the hardest! I feel like even when I do give something over to God, I am stilling ‘looking over His shoulder.’ Checking to see if He is doing it ‘right.’ Ha! Like I would ever know! 
Waiting can be a form of suffering, and when we suffer, we are, in a small way, suffering as Christ suffered. Which in turn, draws us closer to Him.
Psalm 27:13-14
“I am still confident of this:
I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord:
Be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.”
