Mark 15:3
“And the chief priests accused Him of many things, but He answered nothing.”
During the height of the “Cold War,” David Benson was standing in the center of Red Square with hundreds of Russian Bibles buried in his luggage and sewn into his garments. He was to deliver the Bibles to a Russian believer, but the authorities had unexpectedly relocated that man and David had no idea where he was or how to contact him.
It was at that terrifying place in his life that David Benson took his hands off the situation and said and did nothing in his own strength. As he totally depended on the Lord, he was miraculously taken to meet his contact in another part of Moscow where he had never been. What David was incapable of doing himself, God did for him when he simply trusted.
When it is appropriate, to do nothing IS to do something. Throughout His ministry here on earth our Savior did much and said much, but there were times when He did nothing and said nothing. In so doing, He accomplished His purpose.
Sometimes it seems as if we are compelled to say or do something when all the Lord wants us to do is to do nothing in our own strength — just wait and watch for Him to accomplish His work.
May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!
– – – Pastor Cecil