Stand And See
- Linda Rock
- 2 days ago
- 3 min read

For the past week, we have been looking around, viewing and reviewing, receiving and learning as we were led in looking around in like manner, as God invited His servant Abram to look around. From just where Abram was, God told him to look around him, turning – north, south, east, west – and whatever good he saw, however much he was able to see, God would give to him. Not only that, but God would also give him and his offspring even the abundance that his limited eyes were unable to see. We shared in that promise, as we were given great, unsearchable riches, by looking around and about different and various offerings from which we all received in different measures.
As we begin a fresh new week, on this Lord’s Day Sunday, we come with grateful thanks for all that our Heavenly Father has done for us. We are forever joyful for the unlimited daily grace which He has so freely bestowed upon us and all the deep treasures we have hidden in our ever thankful hearts.
We come before our Heavenly Father as His loved children, whom He ever delights to teach and to have sweet communion and fellowship. Fully aware that our Heavenly Father knows that we are frail dust and that our frame is corruptible, we are reassured that He truly knows and understands us. Our hope is in Him and His comforts to us. Like the psalmist, who praises God for His tender mercies and unmerited kindness, we too know that as a father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who fear Him. Psalm 103: 13. It is in this pity, our Heavenly Father’s undeniable understanding, abundant compassion and unrelenting forgiveness that we stand.
Indeed, this week we shall be standing, staying in one place and receiving the goodness of the Lord. Who is God, like our God? Who is Jesus, like our Jesus? Who is Holy Spirit, like our Holy Spirit? O! To be guided and moved by God the Holy Spirit, is to be free, to be and do as He wishes. God and God alone is our God and through His Holy Spirit, we are able to look around, with our eyes all over the place, and receive His unfathomable, unsearchable, unimaginable bountiful riches. Through the same Holy Spirit, we can also stand still and see it all. Yes, our God is so great, so God, so free, so unharnessed, that He can have His people stand still and see His Sovereign power and authority.
Our minds are guided to the words of Samuel, God’s servant, whom He used as judge, leader, prophet and priest to His children, the Israelite people. Speaking after Jehovah, when the people were adamant that they wanted a king to lead them, Samuel spoke in very real, live and warning terms to the people. To ratify, confirm and stake every word which God gave Samuel to speak in the ears of all the people, this is what he told them. Now therefore, stand and see this great thing which the LORD will do before your eyes. 1 Samuel 12: 16.
This week is special, for it is a time for us to simply stay put in one place and see all the marvellous, great things the Lord is about to work before our eyes.
I end by sharing this verse from one of Charles Wesley’s numerous hymns.
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