Sit, Wait & Listen

People seem to think at The Garden (a Christian community) we are being instructed to sit and wait. As though manna will fall from the sky. Honestly, that is exactly what we are taught to do from the Word. Sit, wait and listen for instructions.

From God, of course.

However, it requires having laid down your life and choosing faith (the key to spiritual awakening) that the Holy Spirit does the work through us. The Spirit works the Word through us - we do not work the word through Him!

It can be confusing if you only see and hear in the physical realm - unaware of a spiritual one.

This sitting and waiting is not passive though. No more than the "non-violent disobedience" movement framed by Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. was passive.

We are prompted (it differs for each of us) as we go about our daily activities. Such as randomly meeting someone we never could have arranged to meet, or as we're told off-handedly some important piece of information that was only significant to us, or an unexpected call from someone who said something to someone else about us.

However, we can miss many of these promptings if we run around incessantly doing what we perceive we ought to do. It's true that sometimes things come to pass nonetheless but we have fretted and worried ourselves sick to make it happen. There was no peace and joy in obtaning it.

Unfortunately, most of us are generally caught-up in expectations that the world has placed on us.

So, I have chosen to sit, wait and listen. And guess what? Things are unfolding. I see them through the Spirit I know them through the Holy Spirit. There's peace and joy in letting Him do "it."

In fact, while I was writing this blog someone called. Completely unexpectedly, offering me the opportunity to share to a group of women who are very much in the Lord and have been blessed with the opportunity to make things happen.

Wow! Thank you Holy Spirit.

Continue to shine His Light by being a Traveling Light for the world!