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Writer's pictureJoni

Day 20: The Stillness Of Change


LET GOD BE GOD!

What FREEING WORDS,

because

GOD doesn't need PERMISSION to BE HIMSELF.

But don't we treat GOD as someone who we can control,

who needs our permission for GOD to be HE who HE already is?

LET GOD BE GOD

are the words of

SURRENDER,

when you

SURRENDER

TO GOD'S WORDS~

"BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD" (Psalm 46:10).

GOD never said~

BE STILL AND KNOW THAT you are GOD

or

BE STILL AND KNOW THAT your relationships are GOD

or

BE STILL AND KNOW THAT your circumstances are GOD

or

BE STILL AND KNOW THAT your feelings are GOD,

because

GOD wants to be

THE GOD

of your relationships

of your circumstances,

of your feelings,

of your

LIFE.

For whatever you make a "god" in your life,

it robs you of

THE STILLNESS OF GOD.

But oh how when the little "gods" of

LIFE

strive to become the BIG GODS in your life,

by taking FIRST PLACE.

FIRST PLACE~

those people, places, and things in your

LIFE

that rule over your

mind and heart,

so that they become

GOD

over

your feelings,

your relationships,

over your circumstances,

over you!

What is your GOD?

What "god" is occupying the space of your

MIND,

that needs the STILLNESS of GOD?

What won't you stop thinking about

that you can't CHANGE, but you BELIEVE that if you keep

THINKING about it, it will CHANGE?

BE STILL AND KNOW THAT GOD IS GOD.

What "god" keeps breaking your HEART

over and over again,

because you THINK you can make it stop

BREAKING YOU,

if you keep the pain inside?

BE STILL AND KNOW THAT GOD IS GOD.

The KING sits on HIS THRONE.

HIS people gather around HIM.

They KNOW that HE is THE KING,

the RULER over the land.

What HE says is the GOLDEN RULE,

because what

HE SPEAKS

is not said to harm them,

but to bring

PEACE

HOPE

JOY

because

THE KING LOVES them so.

THE KING

isn't an ordinary KING

for HE is their CREATOR.

HE ends all of HIS speeches with

a tender touch,

as HE gets off

HIS THRONE

and

kneels down to get closer to HIS people.

And then HE speakes the words,

"BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD".

A PEACE runs through the crowd.

You can't hear a pin drop.

But then the JOYFUL voice of a child,

is heard through the crowd

as the words

"LET GOD BE GOD"

roll off of his tongue.

Oh the FAITH OF A CHILD.

The FREEDOM OF A CHILD.

The PEACE OF A CHILD.

The JOY OF A CHILD.

A CHILD OF THE KING

who

takes to HEART the

SIMPLICITY of GOD'S WORDS

that sets your HEART on fire

to

LIVE LIFE with a STILLNESS

that is not produced by

HOLDING ON,

but by

LETTING GO

to

THE ONE

who KNOWS you way better than you KNOW yourself.

For GOD KNOWS that when you become

STILL enough TO KNOW

that

HE KNOWS

way more than you KNOW,

you will then

SURRENDER to HIS WAYS,

HIS STILLNESS will fill your mind,

HIS STILLNESS will fill your heart,

HIS STILLNESS that is indescribable

that it transcends all understanding.

For when

GOD says BE STILL,

HIS DESIRE is to become

FIRST PLACE

in your life,

and that my friend is why

JESUS

came from a heavenly home on a throne,

to be born in a manger in a smelly stable,

becoming so insignificant as

HE SURRENDERED to HIS HIS FATHER'S WILL~

“For I have come down from heaven,

not to do MY own will, but the will of HIM who sent ME...

For this is the will of MY FATHER that everyone who beholds the SON and BELIEVES in HIM will have eternal life,

and I MYSELF will raise him up on the last day (John 6).

THE KING sits on HIS THRONE.

HIS SON sits on HIS RIGHT SIDE.

Where are you?

Why would I ever want to have anyone else or anything else

on the throne of my heart,

when I can just

BE STILL AND KNOW THAT GOD IS GOD.

And that is

not my giving GOD permission to be GOD,

because GOD does not need my permission,

but it is my giving

GOD PERMISSION

to sit on

THE THRONE

of my

mind and heart

so that

HIS STILLNESS will RULE over my being.

Have you given yourself

PERMISSION

to LET GOD BE GOD

by giving HIM FIRST PLACE

so that

HIS PEACE

HIS JOY

HIS HOPE

and

HIS LOVE

WILL

overwhelm

your mind and your heart,

so that you will be sitting

"IN THE STILLNESS"

(listen to the song below)


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