Making decisions when we are discontent can lead to collisions! When lost in the woods, any good boy scout knows to be still and wait for help.
When driving in fog so thick that you can not see what is in front of you, the safest thing to do might be to pull over and wait.
When a storm is raging on a boat,
you throw down the anchor.
Contentment with godliness is great gain, and from this position we hear the Lord much more clearly.
Even in a storm, waiting in hope, is like a rope around our waist.
We stop seeking control (we really never had it anyway), and started listening.
Eve was deceived into thinking that having control was the answer to a better life. Satan caused her to focus on what she did not have and could not do - creating discontentment. When we become discontent even paradise loses its joy.
The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right.
Where ever we are, from there He longs to make Himself know to us. Sometimes the best direction that will come to us in a day, is to be still and know that He is God.
WHEREEVER He may guide me,
No want shall turn me back;
My Shepherd is beside me,
And nothing can I lack.
His wisdom ever waketh,
His sight is never dim,--
he knows the way He taketh,
And I will walk with Him. ~A.L.Waring
Abandon yourself to His care and guidance, as a sheep in the care of a shepherd, and trust Him utterly. No matter though you may seem to yourself to be in the very midst of a desert, with nothing green about you, inwardly or outwardly. You may think you will have to make a long journey before you can get into the green pastures. Our Shepherd will turn that very place where you are into green pastures, for He has power to make the desert rejoice and blossom as a rose. H.W.S.
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