I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know…his incomparably great power for us who believe. Ephesians 1:19
Do you feel like everybody wants a piece of you, and you’re losing yourself one bite at a time? Are growing demands consuming you from the inside out? Do you feel that if you don’t keep moving you may not be able to move at all? I do sometimes, and I see it and hear it in the people around me. Yet, there is power, an incomparably great power, within reach of even the weakest and most frazzled.
This power – this dynamis – overshadowed Mary at the conception of the Son of God. It’s the same power the woman tapped when she touched the hem of Jesus’ garment, and it’s the dynamis that works in us to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine – more than we could ever dream!
With all this power resident in me, I still struggle. How can I know and experience this incomparably great power in the demands of my day? How do I tap into it? I think the answer is in my posture. It isn’t in having more time to do more or working harder or even getting more sleep. The secret is folding my wings and being still at the feet of Power Himself.
In Psalm 46:10 God says, “Be still, and know that I am God.” To be still means to stop all activity, to fold the wings and sink down. When I start my day with folded wings and sink down into God, He fills me with His Spirit and strengthens my heart for the day.
in quietness and trust is your strength,
but you would have none of it.
Isaiah 30:15
That last phrase is sobering because sometimes I would have none of it and run through my days without it. Those are the days my soul is stretched thin and my spirit grows weary.
God doesn’t call me to frantic unrelenting activity. He calls me every day to stillness. So, I set myself before God every morning and fold my wings. In those quiet moments of submission, His Spirit moves in the silence of my soul filling me, renewing me, and empowering me to do as He desires. From that place of stillness, I rise to soar on wings like eagles.
Folded Wings is now in my gallery:
