I would say that God has seemed rather silent during the past year. But maybe it is rather that His quiet word in my mind has been simple. This devotional IS that message. It seems that God is moving me beyond looking for and responding to circumstances and open doors and a way made plain...to simple obedience to His quiet nudgings and belief in His sovereignty and steadfast love.
Whenever I have petitioned the Lord concerning our plight, this story is suddenly the highlight in my mind.
(from STREAMS IN THE DESERT)
As soon as the soles of the feet of the priests... shall rest in the waters… the waters shall be cut off (Joshua 3:13).
The people were not to wait in their camps until the way was opened, they were to walk by faith. They were to break camp, pack up their goods, form in line to march, and move down to the very banks before the river would be opened.
If they had come down to the edge of the river and then had stopped for the stream to divide before they stepped into it, they would have waited in vain. They must take one step into the water before the river would be cut off.
We must learn to take God at His Word, and go straight on in duty, although we see no way in which we can go forward. The reason we are so often balked by difficulties is that we expect to see them removed before we try to pass through them.
If we would move straight on in faith, the path would be opened for us. We stand still, waiting for the obstacle to be removed, when we ought to go forward as if there were no obstacles.
--Evening Thoughts