Stand ‘Your’ Ground?

 

“See, I am doing a new thing!

Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?

I am making a way in the wilderness

and streams in the wasteland.”

Isaiah 43:19

 

We often hear the phrase or have people repeat to us the words:

“Stand Your Ground!”

That speaks to us of not being moved from our position or opinion.

But today as I was reading a prophetic word from another person I felt the Holy Spirit ask me a question.

It was this:

“Are you standing your ground or are you standing my ground?”

We are so easily convinced of our own ways and our own opinions that if we are not careful they begin to creep into how we interpret what God is doing and how He is doing it.

What do I mean?

Simply this – we so hold onto our own interpretations of all that is happening around us so vehemently that we begin to eliminate the very possibility that God could be doing something quite differently than what we imagine.

Now this is not a call to back down from any firm convictions you may have in God.

It is however a plea for us within the Body of Christ to recognize that while it is true that God works all things together for good to those who love Him, the “how” of that verse often comes as a surprise to the very ones He is rescuing.

Think about Joseph in the prison.

I doubt that he perceived his release would come through a dream interpretation.

Or that Gideon could ever have expected victory over the Midianites with an army consisting of a meager three hundred men.

King Jehoshaphat prayed and heard the Word of the Lord.

He then had singers in front of the troops; but I am thinking that even he was amazed when “As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.”  

It is not a time to stand our ground.

It is rather a time to stand His ground and see the salvation of the Lord.

Do not expect that God will move only in the way(s) you have imagined.

Stand His Ground and let God be God!