Last week I was changing Browder. We usually strap him down on the changing table but this time I forgot. By the time I remembered it was too late. It was messy. What is it about babies that want to touch everything?! I’m franticly trying to clean him while pushing away his hands. Then he wants to sit up. I lay him back down while shooing away his hands…again. Then he sits up….again. It’s a never ending cycle. 

Then it happened. He hit his head on the side of the changing table as I was laying him back down…you know so he wouldn’t roll over, fall off the table or get in his own filth. Now he’s screaming but he’s still enough so I can finally clean him. I get him in a clean diaper, pick him up, kiss his head and sway back and forth until he is calm. 

I wonder how often I do the same with God. I know He is working but I can get impatient. He isn’t working according to my speed. I get distracted. Maybe I want to help when God isn’t ready for me to get involved yet. I think I know a better way. I try to interfere when God is just trying to do a work in us. Isn’t it cute when our kids think they know more than us yet how childish I am with God?

All Browder had to do was just lay there. I was cleaning up his mess. I was even trying to make it fun with silly faces and singing…ok maybe he was trying to avoid my singing but that’s not the point. We would have gotten done a lot quicker if he would have just been still. 

Instead he ended up with a bump on the head and a bigger mess for me to clean. Plus the whole household could hear his squalling in the other room. Did I mention, he just needed to lay still?

“Be still and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10). “The Lord will fight for you, you need only to be still” (Exodus 14:14). This has become such a common theme over the last several months. I shared the first verse awhile back but yet here it is again. Several ladies even shared these verses at Bible study a few weeks back. Ok God, are you trying to tell this busy bee something?!

The most beautiful part of “The Lord will fight for you, you need only to be still” is when you continue reading on in Exodus. God commanded Moses to raise his staff and He parted the seas to make a path for the Israelites to cross. The glory of God was revealed just by a raise of the staff!

Of course, the Israelites eventually thought God’s plan wasn’t good enough and they interfered. They spent 40 years in the desert because of their mess yet God still provided. He never failed them even though they prolonged their journey. All they had to do was trust God. 

The Lord will fight for me. I just need to be still. His glory will be revealed.

Ok God, I’m listening. Be still.