trbccoffeebreak

“Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him.” Psalm 37:7 (NIV)

The past couple of years has been tough for millions of people around the globe. We have all seen how a virus can afflict multitudes of people at once, despite their geographic location around the globe. We have lived through a pandemic. We trusted the Lord to be our guide and to help us to keep on moving, especially when we had zero ideas about what to do because we realized from the beginning we cannot fix the damage on our own.

We, humans, are not very good about exercising patience when things are not going our way; we are not very good about standing still when lives are being affected and everything around us seems to be crumbling down in a domino effect.

When something hurts, we cry; when something breaks, we complain; when something stops working, we whine. Oftentimes, we need someone or something to blame for our demise, so we blurt out words and we scream; we do anything but quiet ourselves down so that we can hear God speaking to us. We panic, and we forget to trust His guidance.

When Jesus felt struggles coming on the horizon, He would find a quiet place where He could talk to the Father in prayer. He could have allowed His humanity to take over and tell His followers to run for their lives. Can you picture what kind of chaos that would have created if He acted based on His feelings and emotions like we so often do? But, instead, Jesus would go into a quiet garden, kneel before the Lord and pray. He would seek His Father’s guidance and strength. Even facing what was about to come, like an arduous walk through the streets of Jerusalem dragging a wooden cross upon which He knew He would hang, Jesus chose to be still and wait patiently for His Father. He kept calm, and He trusted.

Friends, God has a plan for you and me. He will see us through the trials He allows us to endure. There is nothing we have to face in this life that we will go about doing alone because He is ready to walk it with us. Let’s keep calm and trust Him.

“Dear God: there is nothing better in the world than to know You are right beside us. We surrender to You all that we cannot handle on our own.”

For His Glory

Luska Natali
TRBC Women’s Life