God is slow and we must be slow. (1)
When we hurry, we miss much.
I wonder how many times, like the Priest and the Levite on the Road to Jericho, I have sped past God.
I always assume God is speeding ahead, thus I move full steam ahead.
It is not until I find myself alone and bereft of His presence that I realize I passed Him by a long way back.
God lives in the present. He waits for me to draw near to Him.
God waits for me in the present, not in the future.
When will I ever learn?
Be still and know that I am God ….” (2)
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Hannah Whitall Smith and Melvin Easterday Dieter, The Christian’s Secret of a Holy Life: The Unpublished Personal Writings of Hannah Whitall Smith (Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997).
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Psalm 46:10.
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