Written by Shirrell Wells

With every new year we tend to stop and reflect on the past, on victories, mistakes, failures, hopes, dreams, disappointments and determine in our heart that the new year will be better than the last, it is new; a chance to start over. We take a deep breath and plunge into January 2. Our lives are so hectic we barely have a chance to breathe; let alone take ten minutes out of our schedules just to talk to our heavenly Father. The pages of our Bibles are rarely open, because who has time to read? And the New Year suddenly takes on the same costume of the last, perhaps even a little more hectic and stifling.

God has been directing me into a place I will call “Standing still”. There are many passages where God reminds us to be quiet, to stand, to be still, why? Because when we actually do this, we take ourselves out of the way and God can move for us. He can place us, he can speak to and for us; He can actually use us!

“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” –Psalms 46:1

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Avi Lipkin is an Israeli and Jewish Hebrew scholar.