How do I do nothing?  It seems an impossible thing, to stand bye while that monster on the wall marks time as metronome marks the four four of a Gershwin tune.  Nothing!, Really, I am to simply watch while my eye twitches and my hands quiver admonishing my feet for beginning to walk without command.  Oh, this has got to end, this agony, but how can doing nothing be such burden, such trial?  I know people on their couches that crave this thing, this nothing, gazing slumberly at a energized rectangle, hypnotic, filled with pleasures, history and words they would have you remember.  Not for me this nothing, but as the Lord bids, his will be done.

Doing nothing, seems an irony, for one action and the other the lack thereof.  But, it is a psychological nothing to which I am referring, doing nothing meant to bring about a result tailored to my own desires for completion.  Meaning, this nothing is not doing the something that I desperately want to do to evoke the other something that I wish to turn out right.  Letting go is the first step of a control or willfully disobedient man of God, after letting go an prized moment of voluntary surrender, the true toughness begins.  For at this point when God bids us stay in Jerusalem or go to Jerusalem we understand that the something that needs to be done is the something for which he has commanded us WAIT.  What you are telling me that doing nothing and waiting are one in the same.  Yes, I am.

There are so many times that I have embarked on travels ill advised or left situations meant to teach me the next component of my training simply because I could not tolerate the frustration of not being in charge of the whole thing and being incapable of waiting upon God.  Especially in tough circumstance this is vital, as the Lord is the one who delivers and sometimes if we try and save ourselves we will do unnecessary or further damage that need not occur.  The Lord is my shepherd, which means me being the sheep of his flock I go when he says to go and stay when and where he tells me to stay.  Doing nothing ought to be something with which I am entirely comfortable.  The problem is that it isn’t, entirely comfortable that is.  In fact, it still drives me up a wall.  Standing still for an accomplished man, a doer, a people pleaser, a manipulative man with a fixer mentality is tantamount to failure.  And logic would dictate in worldly terms none of us wants to be known failure so doing something, anything, even the imprudent thing is better than failing immeasureably.  The complication and learning is that waiting upon God is the Best thing that can be done as always indicated by the results of that discipline.

So doing nothing it is and learning to unclench my teeth and untwist my toes and take a big long breath is exactly what I am going to do, for the Lord is in charge and He knows best.  In Jesus’ Name I rest and wait for the proper time to act.