I listened to an interesting talk recently on “resting in the Lord” from Psalm 37:7.

To rest in the Lord isn’t about sitting back and doing nothing – rather it is a process of learning to roll with the punches, knowing God is in charge. It is about keeping going, whatever our circumstances, and trusting that God will see us through.

It doesn’t mean that we will necessarily like what is happening to us -  Job was certainly very unhappy about the misfortunes which befell him. Sometimes we have to trust God while we stand metaphorically on the shore of the Red Sea with the Egyptian army galloping towards us. We need to maintain our certainty that God is still there,...