The Quieter You Become, the More You Hear...

This will not be the first or last time I use this phrase in my writing.

I don't know about you, but God has been so patient in teaching me this lesson...

"Be still, Rachel, and know that I am God."

"Be calm, Rachel, this battle belongs to Me."

"Be quiet, Rachel. I am speaking, if you will just listen."

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This morning, I had a thought:

What if all this time I have been fretfully aching and praying over someone else's need to turn to God and obey, and all the while my clamoring, rambling voice has fogged my senses to the point that I cannot hear that beautiful, still, small voice giving me direction on where I need to turn to Him and obey—to sit, rest, wait, and relax?

Read this glorious snippet from "Waiting on God" by Andrew Murray...

“The keyword of all our expectations will be the promises:

'They shall not be ashamed who wait on me 'and 'Blessed are all those who wait for him.“ 

The promised blessings for ourselves, or for others, may tarry;

Yet the blessedness of knowing him who has promised the living fountain is even now ours.

Even as the sunshine enters with its light and warmth, with its beauty and blessing, into every little blade of grass that rises out of the cold earth, so the Everlasting God enters with the tenderness of his love into the heart of each waiting child.

We have “the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” 

(2 Corinthians 4:6).

Read these words again, until your heart grasps what God waits to do to you!

Who can measure the difference between the great sun and the little blade of grass?

And yet the grass has all the sunlight it can need or hold.

Do you believe that in waiting on God, his greatness and your smallness suit and meet each other most wonderfully? Allow this truth to take hold in your soul; that waiting on God is itself the highest privilege of the creature, the highest blessedness of his redeemed child. 

Just bow in emptiness and poverty and utter impotence; in humility and meekness, simply surrender to his will and be still. As you wait on him, God draws near.

He will reveal himself as the God who will fulfill mightily his every promise.

And then may your heart take up this song:

“My soul wait only on God”

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It's funny. Girls, we hate the words "Relax" or "Wait." But when we slow down to encounter God in all His wonder, those words are like milk to a crying baby. Let's allow it to be so!

Lord God of all Heaven and Earth, Pioneer and Perfecter of our faith, Provider and Sustainer, Savior, Intercessor, Advocate, Counselor and Friend...may every woman reading this today be convinced that quietly waiting for you and relaxing into your All-Knowing, completely trustworthy, altogether lovely hand is life beyond measure. What a joyous release!

Jesus, help us enjoy you today!

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"For God alone my soul waits in silence; From Him comes my salvation.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my defense and my strong tower;

I will not be shaken or disheartened.

For God alone my soul waits in silence and quietly submits to Him,

For my hope is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation; My fortress and my defense. I will not be shaken or discouraged. On God my salvation and my glory rest; He is my rock of [unyielding] strength, my refuge is in God. Trust [confidently] in Him at all times, O people; Pour out your heart before Him. God is a refuge for us.

Selah." Psalm 62