Stillness

For I am breaking this ground.

See it breaks before you.

For nothing is too hard for me.

Nothing is too hard for me.

“That it would fall upon fertile soil and reap an abundant harvest”

Care not for the soil.

Fear not for the soil.

Make no assessment of the soil.

No need to survey the soil.

For my seed falls.

For the seed shall fall.

See the seed falls from my hand.

For I do not consider the soil.

For the soil has no power to grow my seed.

My seed contains the power to grow.

See it falls from your hand.

Watch it fall from your hand.

“For the seed shall quicken the soil, I see the seed fall upon the ground, then an accelerated harvest, fruit where there was none”

What is it you see?

The seed falls upon the dry ground, the hard ground, and I hear the sound of the cracking.

For the seed shall take root.

For the seed shall take possession of the soil.

In a moment, in an instant the harvest is here.

That which was hard is now soft.

For the hard surface is now tilled. Tilled by my seed.

For I have broken that which was hard.

Genesis 18:12-14 Therefore Sarah laughed to herself, saying, After I have become aged shall I have pleasure and delight, my lord (husband), being old also? And the Lord asked Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I really bear a child when I am so old? Is anything too hard or too wonderfulfor the Lord? At the appointed time, when the season for her delivery comes around, I will return to you and Sarah shall have borne a son.

For there is no barrier that my seed cannot penetrate.

For, of what use is the barrier?

To protect. To provide shelter, like a windbreaker, like a raincoat. To prevent access. To obstruct entry. To push forward. To hold back.

Yet one is designed to enable movement.

Another is designed to prevent movement.

For I have established your going.

The key is movement.

The barrier is the key to movement.

For the natural flow overwhelms the natural obstacle.

For the natural bulldozer clears the path, yet removes that which was growing.

Yet some barriers are filters that remove impurities from the flow.

There you sit.

There you sit.

There you sit upon the edge.

There you sit upon the boundary.

There you sit upon the place that no one dare sit.

In the place of the great fall.

In the stead of the great fall.

In the place, in that place, rest your hand upon the edge.

What is it you see?

A great fall A great waterfall A huge torrent

From the place of great dryness shall come a great fall.

What is it you see behind you?

The barren land. The place of great barrenness. The place of no growth. The place of inhibited growth.

What is it you in front of you?

The lush green pasture. The land that flows.

What is it you see in between?

The edge, the boundary, the line, the elevated position, the place of elevation. The great outpouring from my hand. On the one side dryness, on the other side a flood, a great flow.

Hold on.

Hold on.

Just wait a moment.

Just rest your hand upon it.

For it pours from your pores when you pause.

Just pause.

Just press pause.

How does that feel?

Like a great shaking. The very ground shakes. A great movement underground. In the stillness great movement. Unexpected movement. For that which was still now shakes as I rest my hand upon it.

For there shall be great movement.

Look for great movement. Look for great movement in the place of stillness.

For I am out of order.

You expect the great shaking, then the stillness.

Yet look for the great shaking in the place of stillness.

Be still and know.

Be still and just know.

For you know.

Yes you know.

You have knowledge.

Possess stillness, take up stillness, hold on to my stillness.

Psalms 46:10-11 Let be and be still, and know (recognize and understand) that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations! I will be exalted in the earth! The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our Refuge (our High Tower and Stronghold). Selah pause, and calmly think of that!

Hold your position.

Take hold of your position.

For you don’t have to stop as your beloved said.

Yet when you stop expect acceleration.

Hold the line, take hold of the line.

Hold the edge, take hold of the edge.

For you are not who you once were.

For he who has wings rests upon the turbulent winds.

He who sits upon the ground is buffeted by the winds.

He who rests upon the shore is buffeted by the waves.

Say to yourself “my haven’t you grown”

Say to that which is before you, my haven’t you grown.

For there is no barrier to your advance.

Have I not established your goings?

Psalms 40:1-5 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. I WAITED patiently and expectantly for the Lord; and He inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up out of a horrible pit a pit of tumult and of destruction, out of the miry clay (froth and slime), and set my feet upon a rock, steadying my steps and establishing my goings. And He has put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many shall see and fear (revere and worship) and put their trust and confident reliance in the Lord. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who makes the Lord his refuge and trust, and turns not to the proud or to followers of false gods. Many, O Lord my God, are the wonderful works which You have done, and Your thoughts toward us; no one can compare with You! If I should declare and speak of them, they are too many to be numbered.