A Strength that Does Not Move

Yesterday I felt God speak over me two very thought changing phrases:

"The biggest adventures of your life are the accomplishments you make that no one else sees."

"Your Greatest Strength is not in what you can move, but it is in what you can hold still."

When I think of the life of Jesus, while I love studying his miracles and wonders, I often wonder about the quiet seasons of His life.  I can't help but wonder what the years were like in the quiet, in the stillness, out on the mountain when He was simply waiting.  I wonder what He felt, what battles He faced, and how he found His strength when God simply told him to wait.

We see the miracles--the walking on water, the turning water to wine, the healing of the sick, the feeding of the multitudes.  We know of his great power, strength and boldness all throughout scriptures and now in trying to be Christlike we focus on being strong, being bold, having power through the Spirit.  How many times though do you hear people saying--my deepest desire and goal is to be still, to be set-apart, and to have long seasons of quietness and waiting?  We only know of a few years of Jesus' life, the rest is not mentioned.  The majority of His life was in quietness and in waiting, it was in being set-apart and in seeking relationship with His father.

We see seasons of quiet and stillness as punishment so often--wondering what we did wrong to not be out in front or to not be as successful as those around us.  Just because those decades of Jesus' life were not recorded does not mean that they were not important--it was those years that defined Jesus, it was those years that Jesus developed all that He needed in order to do the great wonders and miracles that we do read about.   In life we have it backwards, we think that we should all just go out boldly and with great power and change the world.  We don't want to be still, we don't want to wait because in our minds we equate stillness with weakness and waiting with punishment.

If we truly long to be Christlike--we must be willing to be still, we must be willing to wait, we must be willing to meet with God and say--You are enough.    I truly believe that Jesus' greatest power was in His ability to wait and be still.  He was the Son of God, He held a depth of wisdom that no man could fathom, He had abilities that no man had ever seen and yet it wasn't about Him.

Lets be a body of Christ that is willing to be still and to wait, to be led by God, to put our own selfish ambitions aside and listen for when God says..."it is time."

Your Greatest Strength is not always in what you can move, but it is in what you can make unmovable.