Rev. Ray and Pat Amos
I have always heard about having your second childhood. Now I wonder if that is happening. After years of preaching, I have been sitting in church pews more often than usual. It’s not uncommon for a child to hear an adult say, “Sit still,” but you should not have to say that to an adult, especially a preacher in church. Why then do I keep being told to sit still; and the one telling me is God?
“Be still and know that I am God.” Psalms 46:10
I know that passage was not written to tell someone how to behave in church, but it’s a lesson that I have needed to learn. Pat says that I am in a time of watching, listening, and learning from a different perspective while I wait for what the Lord has planned next.
Each day that we walk with Christ brings another lesson that we may need somewhere down the road. What I have learned while waiting on the Lord, is to remember what I already know: Today is the day that the Lord has made, and tomorrow is not in my hands. When I tell him what I want to do, he says, “Sit still!”
A Quaker pastor wrote about the reaction of visitors to their churches. Many are unprepared to sit in silence. He said that you can tell which ones will not be back. It seemed to him that the most impatient ones often carried the biggest Bible.
If you are wondering what tomorrow holds for you, why not just be still today and leave everything with the Lord.
“I don’t worry over the future,
For I know what Jesus said,
And today I’ll walk beside Him,
For He knows what lies ahead.
Many things about tomorrow,
I don’t seem to understand.
But I know who holds tomorrow,
And I know who holds my hand.”
Grace and Peace, Rev Ray
