Beloved of God,
When faced with casual or
delicate choices, “Doing Nothing" on not a few occasions can be a
very useful shield that should limit our carnal nature from writing some
chapters of each day.
Father Abraham once
ignored such ancient wisdom and it came at a dire cost to him. He hearkened to
Sarah's counsel and gave birth to an earth-troubled Ishmael, which cost him
some years of closed heaven.
Doing "Nothing"
on not a few occasions can save one from ignorantly incurring the wrath of man.
It can cover a multitude of sins, it can enable us pass some very vital
spiritual examinations, it can enable us cross boundaries of death into life,
it can enable us become invincible before rebel holders in high places, and
above all, like we saw in our Lord Jesus, it can enable us lose a
destiny-besetting baggage called REPUTATION (Phil. 2:7)
The Lord Jesus was a master
here in “Doing Nothing” on many occasions. He used this weapon to manage the
religious elites of his day and later got rebel holders lamenting, “had we
known, we wouldn't have crucified The Lord of glory" (1Cor. 2:8). JESUS
ENTERTAINED THEIR LUST TO KILL WHILE DOING NOTHING! Oh, how many battles I
have lost "DOING SOMETHING", most of which were easily sighted and
understood by Satan's corrupted wisdom!
Though Jesus was anointed
beyond the present earth and heavens, he discountenance legitimate promptings
to “Do Something”, like we saw at the wedding at Cana of Galilee. He simply
didn’t pick any signal from his base to "DO SOMETHING". He set out
each day taking all the thoughts that righteousness had to reveal, and
therefore knew how not to take any other thought without (Matt. 6:25/34)
THE HOLY UNCTION within us (1Jn. 2:20/27)
is the best teacher who can teach us to strike a balance between DOING
NOTHING and DOING SOMETHING, but since we are still strange to his
voice and leadings, God has given us a provision we should leverage; counsel
from sound minds with which we should make war (Prov. 20:18)
This is perhaps one of the vital ways we can live 80%
differently before God. This perhaps is one of the elusive ways to understand
godliness and thereby inch drastically closer to bearing the Father's image
like the Son once permanently did. Selah.
Nothing that happens AROUND US should be
compared with what should be happening WITHIN US
Blessings!
