"STAND STILL, AND SEE THE SALVATION OF JEHOVAH"

“STAND STILL, AND SEE THE SALVATION OF JEHOVAH”

While this word affords us unbounded encouragement and the largest expectations, yet there is a condition attached to it. You are to stand still - not only stand - but stand still. The Israelites were in great straits at the moment. Pharaoh behind them and the Red Sea before them, but notwithstanding all they are required to be “still”, to leave it all to God. We often turn to God in our difficulties, but we do not leave it implicitly to Him to act for us. Moses was not standing still when he smote the rock twice. Paul had to learn to stand still after he had prayed three times, and often and often we can detect in ^[p. 226] ourselves the desire, if not the act, to forestall God and do something to accomplish a desired end. But if you leave it to God, it is quite wonderful the way He will act for you. Little did Israel expect He would open a way for them through the sea. He delivered Paul at Philippi in the most unexpected and marvellous way, and thus, as we wait on Him, does He show to our own hearts that He is for us, and if God be for us, who can be against us?