MarketPlace Meditations

Learning To Stand
This material appears courtesy of Marketplace Meditations, by Os Hillman

"Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord" (Exodus 14:13).

The Israelites have just left 400 years of slavery in Egypt. They have fled to the desert, but they have come to a dead end at the Red Sea. Word reaches them that Pharaoh has changed his mind. He is sending his troops to recapture the Israelites. They cry out to their leader Moses to complain that he has brought them this far only to die in the desert.

Learning to know when to move and when to stand is the greatest challenge for a businessperson. We are trained for action. We are not trained to sit idly and wait. We are trained to solve the problem, not wait for it to resolve itself. However, God says there are times to wait. We are to wait until He says go. If we go before He says go, we will likely make our situation worse. If the Israelites had attempted to cross the Red Sea before it parted, they would have drowned. If they had fled North to try to avoid the Egyptians, God would not have moved in a miraculous way. God cannot work on our behalf if we continually try to solve our problem when He has instructed us to stand still. Standing still is sometimes the greatest action we can do that is accomplishing the most, although it is the hardest thing to do in the Christian walk.

Stand still when He says stand and see the salvation of the Lord.

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