Be Still

Psalm 46:10 is one of my most favorite verses and funny enough, the one I can't seem to get through my thick skull the majority of the time.

"Be still, and know that I am God! I will be honored by every nation. I will be  honored throughout the world."

The verse is so simple but requires greatness from us. I say that because if we're honest its difficult for us to be still. As difficult as a child with a new toy they want to play with on Christmas morning! In this day and age we want what we want when we want it and all that equals out to NOW. We and by we I really mean I, don't want to wait and especially don't want to be still in the process of that waiting. We want to be hands on and when we don't see things happening fast enough for our liking we have a tendency to get in there and try to MAKE things happen!

This reminds me of Sarah (Sarai) in the Bible. She wanted a child so badly and even though God promised her and Abraham (Abram) they would be parents, it just wasn't happening fast enough for her. So what did she do?

She got involved.

She told her husband to sleep with her servant to produce a child for her. Did it work? Yes, but did it cause more damage than good...YES IT DID!

That's what always happens when we take matters into our own hands. When will we get that Gods ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts higher than our thoughts?! :) He doesn't think like us nor does He do things the way we would do them, but the thing we can BE STILL in knowing is He is God and He will ALWAYS do them in a greater way than we ever could do on our own or even imagine in our minds.

Still = devoid of or abstaining from motion.

It all comes down to trust. The ability to be still before Him is all about trusting He doesn't need our meddling or negative speech about our situation. All He wants us to do is read His Word, do what it says and trust He knows what is best.

BE STILL........