Lie Still and Trust

Psa 27:13  I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

FAINT NOT!

How great is the temptation at this point!

How the soul sinks, the heart grows sick, and the faith staggers under the keen trials and testings which come into our lives in times of special bereavement and suffering.

I cannot bear up any longer, I am fainting under this providence. 

What shall I do?

God tells me not to faint. 

But what can one do when he is fainting?

What do you do when you are about to faint physically? 

You cannot do anything. 

You cease from your own doings.

In your faintness, you fall upon the shoulder of some strong loved one.

You lean hard. 

You rest. 

You lie still and trust.

It is so when we are tempted to faint under affliction.

God's message to us is not, "Be strong and of good courage," for He knows our strength and courage have fled away.

But it is that sweet word, "Be still, and know that I am God."

Hudson Taylor was so feeble in the closing months of his life that he wrote a dear friend: I am so weak I cannot write; I cannot read my Bible; I cannot even pray.

I can only lie still in God's arms like a little child, and trust.

This wondrous man of God with all his spiritual power came to a place of physical suffering and weakness where he could only lie still and trust.

He said He will hide thee Beneath His wing;

And sweetly there in safety Thou mayest sing.

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