「我曾耐心等候耶和華，祂就側耳垂聽我的呼求。」－詩篇40:1
當我們將圍籬看為守護，我們就覺得，能躲在神所建造的牆垣下是件幸福的事。然而當籬笆高築，人們處於看不到外界的情況，不免懷疑是否一生都要留在這塊小小工作之地，而期盼自己影響力有日能大大開展。
但神讓一個人停下腳步，必有祂的目的，正如詩篇37篇23節所說：「義人的腳步被耶和華立定」。
在喬治·慕勒聖經中的這段話旁，有小字標註著：「義人的『止步』也被耶和華立定。」
人若想衝破耶和華所立的藩籬，那是一件可悲的事。
基督徒的生命中有一個管制性的原則，就是若已清楚了神將自己擺在一處，就該拋開尋求離去的念頭，直到領路的雲柱開始動作。
－主日學報
難道被迫停下腳步，眼睜睜看著生命的浪潮從旁呼嘯而過的人，就必然失敗嗎？
絕對不是，勝利的取得乃在安靜站立中、在默然等待裡；這要比隨著潮起潮落的喧囂人生難過千倍！
擁有巨大勇氣的人才能站立不動、安然的等候；他不喪志、不焦躁；他順服神的旨意，將成功和榮耀讓給別人。
他在別人蜂擁的時候安靜，在別人忙亂的時候等候；他的心中滿了信心與喜樂。
「作成了一切，還能站立得住。」（以弗所書6:13）－這才是最偉大的生命。
－密勒
"In waiting, I waited, for the Lord" (Ps. 40:1, margin).Waiting is much more difficult than walking. Waiting requires patience, and patience is a rare virtue. It is fine to know that God builds hedges around His people--when the hedge is looked at from the viewpoint of protection. But when the hedge is kept around one until it grows so high that he cannot see over the top, and wonders whether he is ever to get out of the little sphere of influence and service in which he is pent up, it is hard for him sometimes to understand why he may not have a larger environment--hard for him to "brighten the corner" where he is. But God has a purpose in all HIS holdups. "The steps of a good man are ordered of the Lord," reads Psalm 37:23.
On the margin of his Bible at this verse George Mueller had a notation, "And the stops also." It is a sad mistake for men to break through God's hedges. It is a vital principle of guidance for a Christian never to move out of the place in which he is sure God has placed him, until the Pillar of Cloud moves.--Sunday School Times
Must life be a failure for one compelled to stand still in enforced inaction and see the great throbbing tides of life go by? No; victory is then to be gotten by standing still, by quiet waiting. It is a thousand times harder to do this than it was in the active days to rush on in the columns of stirring life. It requires a grander heroism to stand and wait and not lose heart and not lose hope, to submit to the will of God, to give up work and honors to others, to be quiet, confident and rejoicing, while the happy, busy multitude go on and away. It is the grandest life "having done all, to stand."--J. R. Miller
