Someone needs this tonight...

There are always times in life when you feel like you should say something... something comes up, and you feel wronged on a personal level, and you wish and hope for the moment to say the perfect one-liner to shut down the discussion.  Trust me, I know that this is the case, because it happens to me a lot.  Like, a whole lot.  But then I found a gem inside the book of Exodus a couple of years ago, and I frequently return to it for wisdom...

"The LORD will fight for you; you must be quiet."

Exodus 14:14, HCSB

You know, God is capable of anything you can imagine, as well as capable of all the things you can't imagine.  His power and might and wisdom and intelligence are literally without limit.  He does not fail or fall short.  Ever.  Period.  So if He is fighting for you, why would you get in His way?

You think to yourself, "self, you can handle this one on your own... there's no need to pray this time, because it's all very simple and the solution is so clear, and it should be pretty easy to just handle this one," but then you start out.  Do you know what happens next?  You, like me and every other human ever created (yeah, I said CREATED, because it's the #Truth), do the only thing you are capable of when left to your own devices: you fail. 

But what if you took just a moment to trust that God would handle it?  What if you tried for one second to allow the God that spoke the universe into existence to take a swing at it?  What if you got out of your own way, and got out of His way, and knelt in prayer to center yourself around Him before making a decision or taking action?  Look a couple of paragraphs above, and you'll see clearly what happens... He fights for you.

Granted, this passage is taken from the race across the Red Sea, where the Egyptian army is chasing down the Israelites, and the people were terrified.  However, their fear of impending death by the sword isn't all that different fromour fear of capture by the snare of sin, is it?  Sin brings failure, and that is our enemy's hope for us.  Don't let that happen, Christian sibling.  Just be silent, and let God do what God does best, which is whatever is the very best thing for any given moment, no matter what we may think or feel.

Trust Him, friends, above all else... that is one thing that happens when you are silent and allow Him to work through and in you.

God bless you all!!!