Sit Back and Watch the Show

The Lord has been telling me to “Sit back and watch the show”.  He is telling me this about every situation in my life that is unsettled.  I am to pray, seek His face and enjoy the show.  I am to take my feeling out of the equation, instead of trying to steer it in one direction or another with worry or obsessing on it.  That sounds pretty clear, right?  I could not worry enough for the outcome to be different.  I could not obsess long enough to change the results.

 

Once a couple of years ago, I was invited to a gathering that I did not want to go to.  Some of the people invited were people I had real issues with.   I asked God how I was supposed to go and face these people.  He said in my spirit, “Just sit back and watch the show.” Wow, what a novel idea.  I thought that must have been God because I would not have come up with that idea on my own.  It was simple yet profound at the same time.  As I was at the event and sitting among the people I was trying to avoid and witnessing the dysfunction, I glanced at my husband.  I had told him what the Lord told me before coming to the gathering.  My husband and I both knew what the other was thinking and he smiled and said, “Just sit back and watch the show.”  I settled in for the evening and did just as I was told.  The dysfunction will continue regardless if I get upset or not.  Since that will happen anyway, why would I set myself up for such a thing?   I do have options:  Get involved and get upset and lose.  Or “Sit back and watch the show” and stay calm and enjoy myself.  Pretty easy choice when it is laid out that way.  In the past I would take the bait, get involved, get my emotions all worked up and nothing—and I mean nothing—would change except I would lose my peace.

There isn’t anything worth losing my peace over.  I will now do whatever it is I can to hold onto it.  In the end (among other things) God in Heaven is truly in charge, completely sovereign, securely on His throne, unchanging, long-suffering, merciful and full of love.  So He says to bring everything to Him in prayer.  He doesn’t say if you worry and obsess over it enough I will hear you.  It is not that complicated is it?

Philippians 4:6-7 - Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

In other words, thank Him and talk to Him and then, “Sit back and watch the show!”  And peace will follow.  I’m 54 years old, it took me a long time to get here but Thank God for His patience.  I suggest you take the advice He gave me and see how it works out for you. 

 I would love to hear your comments.