Get Quiet

November 16, 2022

There is plenty of chaos around me. I try to do too many things at once, and too many things try to get me to do them first. As a senior citizen, that kind of thinking usually wears me out, and ends with a nap! I often feel guilty about even the shortest nap.

Psalm 46:10, “Be still, and know that I am God.”

I know the way to comfort. It’s working hard and getting ahead. I’ve got to push forward to earn the right for a moment of comfortableness. Nobody can call me lazy.

“Be still, and know that I am God.”

I’ve got to spread the good news that Jesus brings salvation, and I’ve got to do it now! I can’t take a chance that anyone misses eternity with God. I must tell them now.

“Be still, and know that I am God.”

I don’t know how long my life will be, but when my time comes I want to hear God tell me, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.’ How can I be still?

And yet I can’t deny that the Bible commands me to “be still, and know that I am God.”

God made me like I am, and he loves me that way. Yes, he wants me to lean forward, to ‘always be ready to give an answer for the hope that is in you’ (I Peter 3:15), but we have different ways of testifying to our faith. It may be preaching or teaching or writing or always being cheerful. Your life may speak volumes about your faith just by being the person who always gets back up when you’re knocked down.

“Be still and know that I am God” is incredibly important. Don’t run forward so fast that you forget what direction to go.