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Why Doing Nothing Might Be the Most Strategic Move in Your Business
Laura Balbo
August 18, 2025
Have you ever stared at your bank account...
watched the numbers dip lower than you'd like...
and felt that surge of panic rise in your chest?
Felt like the only responsible, faithful thing to do was hustle harder, push more, get out there and make something happen?
Yeah. Me too.
But what if the most strategic — and faithful — move you can make is… nothing?
Not laziness. Not passivity.
But stillness — sacred, surrendered stillness.
A friend once told me a story I’ll never forget.
Her business coach had left a well-paying job to step into entrepreneurship out of obedience. But as she got started, the money didn’t exactly flood in. One day, she looked at her bank account — just $2 left. Panic bubbled up.
Then she heard the Lord ask:
"What do you need?"
She started listing things off — groceries, bills, gas — and realized: she didn’t actually need anything right that moment. Not one need was immediate.
God had already provided.
That story convicted me.
Because my definition of need is usually future-based.
I know a bill is coming. I know expenses are on the horizon. So I say I need provision now.
But God’s Word says He provides for today — our daily bread.
Not the excess we crave.
Not the future we want to control.
Just enough for now.
And that’s where stillness comes in.
Real stillness.
The kind the Bible talks about when it says:
“Be still, and know that I am God…”
— Psalm 46:10 (NIV)
In Hebrew, the word often translated “be still” is harpu — from the root charash (חָרַשׁ), which means:
To be silent
To stop striving
To plow or engrave — to go deep
Stillness, in the biblical sense, is not inactivity.
It’s yielding.
It’s a spiritual discipline that says,
I trust God more than I trust my ability to fix this.
For the past few months, I’ve wrestled with this.
We’ve been in a season of “just enough.” And every few weeks, I find myself asking:
Should I get a job? Make more offers? Push harder?
And the answer I keep sensing from God?
Wait.
That’s hard.
Especially when logic says move.
Culture says hustle.
Fear says do something.
But stillness is not absence.
It’s alignment.
And in Hebrew thought, stillness wasn’t a sign of laziness — it was a sign of covenant trust.
Believing God would keep His promise to protect and provide as long as you stay aligned.
So provision doesn’t come from striving —
It comes from abiding.
That’s what Sabbath was.
That’s what manna was.
That’s what faith looks like.
Not focusing on fixing the problem.
But fixating on the Provider.
So if you're in a season where it feels like you should do something, but God is saying wait —
you’re not being irresponsible.
You’re being invited into radical faith.
Ask Yourself:
What am I trying to fix that God hasn’t asked me to?
Do I actually have what I need today?
Where do I need to let go of control?
Just last week, I looked at a bill and whispered,
"Lord, I don’t know how this is going to work."
And I sensed the same whisper back:
“I do.”
He fights.
He feeds.
He is faithful.
“The Lord will fight for you;
You need only to be stll”
— Exodus 14:14 (NIV)