How do you react when God says “Sit Still”?

I am the type of person who is always moving and never sitting still.
It is a problem that I had since a was a very young girl.  I was always surrounded by family so I never had to learn how to be by myself.
As I got older I added friends into this mix. As a teenager I was always out with my friends and when the weekend came if I didn’t have plans with my
friends I was on the train to North Jersey to hang out with my family.  As my life progressed I started adding things to the mix a career and men.
If I was still it was long enough to go to sleep get up and start all over again.  I even had a girlfriend call me one day and tell me that I was running from something.
What did she know? I was just having fun. Then things started changing.. no matter how much I was doing I became restless.
So I like most thought I was restless because I wasn’t satisfied with my job or my relationship with my boyfriend at the time.

I thought the man I was with at the time was my all and my everything so it couldn’t have been the relationship… lol the job was great
I was golden girl getting praises for my work and my efforts so it couldn’t be the job right? I add on a volunteer position to the job and I still felt
restless. I was still hanging out with my girlfriends partying but always restless. Then I heard a voice say, ” Just be still.” I would love to say that I listened and everything has been beautiful since.

LOL! Nope I have been called hardheaded a few times in my life. Boy when I look back now..Yes I was.

I keep moving at the speed of light until things started unraveling. All that was glittering before started tarnishing.  The relationship I was in started to unravel. I was so restless I left the job I was
happy with to start a new career besides all the advise of the opposite from people who were my counsel at the time.

Still I heard the voice again tell me, “Just be still.”  I was to spent to keep running so one day I actually just sat still. No work, No man, No phone calls Nothing.

I picked up my bible that day and just read and prayed and received clarity over what my next step was to be.

Now that was a few years ago but even in my busy life now I still hear the voice say “Just be still.”  In those soft quiet moments
that I have with God I find clarity, peace, understanding and sometimes I don’t feel like I’m reaching anything. But that is when God is moving in my life the most
because I am not getting into His Way.

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