No Action is Action.

Earlier this week a man that I had met several months ago in a local coffee shop approached me. The man wanted to thank me for something I had said to him previously. He reminded me that he had shared with me that following his divorce his wife had restricted any access to his three daughters and only contacted him when there was need. This clearly affected him and now he said to me that he had followed to do something I had said.

Apparently I told him of the sign that sits at the entrance to Tiananmen Square in Beijing which says ‘ No action is action ‘. I told him effectively to do nothing and in doing nothing , something would happen. often when we react to something there is an adverse effect a gritting that interferes with the natural. Doing nothing is sometimes the hardest thing to do, yet the best thing to do.

The man went on to tell me that he had followed exactly what I said and that his three daughters had in their each and separate ways returned to him, ignoring the stronghold advice of others. We never know that when we speak and often to relative strangers our words can matter.

In the fifth chapter of the book of Romans we see that endurance ( waiting ) develops character and in turn hope. Without hope we has humans have nothing, take hope away and life dies. God is in the waiting and the details are being attended to whilst we wait. To do nothing, the hardest thing to do will see the outcome in due time as this man witnessed.

Recently I stood on the beach in the photo above on the beautiful north Norfolk coast. I watched the tide come in , the sands shift around me and change brought about as I did nothing. In much the same way we become part of these natural forces as creation moves those pieces around to sit in perfect position the God creator sets. No action is action , outcome often outside what we do. The psalmist King David in the 46th Psalm tells us Be still and know that God is in control. By doing nothing we do something as we that no action is action. We often saw Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in her 70 year reign do nothing and say nothing much to the frustration of many. Wisdom clearly Reigned in her ( literally ) as she knew. Take courage, take no action and watch your triumph unfold. Try it my friends. Issac Newton told us for every action ( doing nothing as example ) there is reaction. Something is happening as we wait and realise that no action is action.