![Where the Bush is Burning: A Daily Devotional by [Thomas Tice]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41u9kx4miUL.jpg)
God’s Word Shown to Us
“Tell the servant to go on ahead of us.”
And he went on. “But you stand here awhile,
that I may announce to you the word of God.”
These are fitting words for us as well. God would have us to stop, waiting to understand His will for us as He reveals it to us by His Word. He would have us to “stand.” Standing in the position of alertness, of readiness, of vitality. Elijah stood before the Lord ever ready to come or go at His bidding. So we ought also to stand. The Lord would have us to “stand still.” Constant “fidgeting,” fretting, and fuming debilitate our concentration. A calm, composed stillness, where the heart is “like a weaned child” is the preparation necessary before we receive God’s message.
Our God would also have us alone. The servant passed on, the potential monarch must receive this message in the solitary place. If we want to receive God’s message we must meet with Him alone. The Master would have us wait until He speaks, and then wait to receive the whole message. This will take “a while.” We cannot rush in and out of His presence and expect to understand His will. We must wait “a while.”
Then God also would have us do all these things mentioned previously for a purpose. That purpose is “that (He) may shew (us) the Word of God.” God reveals His will through His Word. Do you want to know the will of God for you in some matter? Listen to the words of Samuel to Saul, and take them for yourself: “Stand thou still a while what (He) may shew thee the Word of God.”
Where the Bush is Burning
Tomm Tice