It's simple really... When you are waiting on God there are only two choices.
1. Do nothing
2. Take care of what you have with what you know
Go back to the vision of enemy soldiers racing down the hill to attack you. The prophet says "be still". If you try to do things to save yourself, you are acting outside God's will. Good must then either block your actions to protect you from your lack of faith or he must let you do things and thereby walk away from his protection. Hopefully he will block your actions!
So you panic and run inside to find your sword... Only to find the door locked, it it has been moved, or it has been dulled in an accident... Things like that make it inside for you to use your sword. God is closing doors, protecting you from yourself.
So what do you do? Take care of anything that you already have to do, and pray. Life goes on. "Peace, be still" can refer to just one aspect of life the rest of life continues on unchanged, or it can refer to all of life and you stop everything to pray and watch. Either way your heart is at peace because you are filling God's will.
Take a real world examples... Your behind on your mortgage and your income can not pay it. God tells you,"peace, be still and know that I am god". But you can't hear that because you see the enemy soldiers racing down the hill. Soon the foreclosure behind and you loose everything. So in"pepper response" you scramble around frantically trying to find more income. But every door you knock on is slammed in your face. After exhausting all the usual avenues you even contemplate some doors outside your life mission, it even outside morality. Even those doors are slammed shut in your face.
The soldiers (foreclosure) get even closer. Panic set in. There panic leads you to try all sorts of ways to about losing your house. Stress builds, adding health problems to the daily burden of a failing life. You begin grabbing at straws, but still everything just fails for some reason.
The answer is to be still. (If god said to be still). When you pray, that may well be the answer he gives! Just be still, go on with life, and trust that something will come through. That is haaaarrrrddd! It takes faith. It takes trust.
So to follow god's will, you prayerfully continue on with life as usual, waiting and watching for how god will bring Deliverance. Will it be an earthquake? A raining of rocks from heaven? How will the event soldiers be stopped? Perhaps a unexpected job offer at the last minute?
If God tells you to wait on him, then he had a plan already in play, you just don't see it. He is working it the details of your Deliverance behind the scenes, ready to pull the trigger at the right moment. Do you trust him? Have you faith to wait with confidence? Perhaps that is the test!
Let your heart be still. Pray, and take care of what you have with what you know. Eat, sleep, play, parent, continue on with life, perhaps with a reversed focus on caring for what you have to care for. Don't "let things go because I will lose it anyway", that is lack of faith. Instead, care for it better than ever! Pour your heart into taking care of your family and possessions for today. And be at rest as you do it.
While we wait, and watch, we busy ourselves with the work at hand. In God's timing, Deliverance, solution, resolution will come through an unexpected means, and everything will suddenly fall into place.
Peace, be still, and know that I am God.
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