Have a Seat

“Sit ye here, while I go...yonder.”

While ministering in Ireland many years ago, I had a great Bible truth ingrained in me while watching shepherds with their sheepdogs on a mountainside. The two were inseparable, except for those times the master would command his companion to “sit.” Then, old faithful would stay, even if her friend left her sight. She would not move until hearing his order to do so or a gesture from him to indicate she should.

One of the great lessons of the Christian life is to learn simply to sit.  Mary is a good example of this. When Jesus came to town, her sister Martha, “ran” to meet Him. But it is recorded of Mary, “Mary sat [still] in the house.” And she did not move until being told, “The Master is come, and calleth for thee...As soon as she heard [that], she arose quickly, and came unto him.”

It takes a strong person to sit still. Isaiah puts it this way, “Their strength is to sit still.” Wise Naomi knew this. She told Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day.” And so it is with our heavenly Boaz!

All the fuss of life is gone once we “sit still” and let Him engineer things.