Sometimes God speaks to us words of profound wisdom and magnitude and yet when they fall onto our ears we are not quite ready to understand all that they mean. I was taking a walk along the ocean and just pouring my heart out to God. So much had happened in the previous weeks and I was questioning God's voice; a voice I was so desperate to hear and yet my mind was starting to doubt and question what was really God and what was me. As I started my walk I told God just that--"God, I long to hear from you but even now, I can't help but question what is You and what is me." I felt like God simply replied---Keep talking anyway...Keep listening anyway.
Step by step and prayer by prayer, conversation formed---while I was tentative at first, words of wisdom and truth washed over me and I knew that what was being spoken over me far exceeded anything I could speak over myself.
I laid out to God all that had happened, my broken heart, my weariness, my fear, my insecurities and
on the way back from my walk I felt like God placed a song in my heart..."I am your Rock, Your Shield, I am Your Peace--Be Still."
I believe God puts songs in our hearts for us to face the upcoming storms of life. I wish I could say, I came back from vacation a new person and that all the wonderful things God had spoken into me changed me to be Brave and Fearless---but truth be told, I quickly got overwhelmed, fear crept back in, and weariness overtook.
The song still plays though, "I am your Rock, Your Shield, I am Your Peace--Be Still."
God gives us profound words to hold onto, they are our life preservers. We may not know what we have yet to face, but God does. He is our high place in the midst of the storm--our rock; He is our protector against all that attacks--our shield; and He is our peace in the midst of it all.
Keep Talking, Keep Listening...Don't let confusion kill conversation with God.
What you have faced, what you are facing, and what you have yet to face is not new to God--when He places a song in your heart--hold on to it.
His words are a lighthouse in the midst of the raging storm.
