When everything seems overwhelming, the best thing we can do is to kneel before the Lord. He already knows what we are facing and kneeling before Him tells our own hearts that we are submitting our problems and our very being to Him and His will.

In our worship, as we kneel before Him, we are acknowledging that He created us and continues to watch over us. There’s a book I read long ago entitled “He Is There and He Is Not Silent” by Francis A. Schaeffer. It’s a relatively short book but I remember that it is filled with encouragement to trust God even when we are not seeing Him move as quickly as we would like. God is always speaking is the theme of the book; the problem is that many of us, including myself, are not always open to hearing. We get busy trying to solve our own problems and go in our own way, not heeding God’s still, small voice or taking the time to get His opinion before we move out into uncharted waters. Listening to God as we kneel before Him is imperative to being able to let go and allow Him to take charge of the situation. He has wanted to do so all along, but out tight grasp on it doesn’t allow Him to move in our lives. We ask Him to move, to answer prayer, to be God, and then we hinder His movement because we don’t listen. How many troubles could be avoided, how much more for Him could be accomplished if only we would listen to Him every day?