Day 23: Be Still And Know
Is BEING STILL DOING NOTHING?
Lately, I have been focusing on the
SIMPLICITY OF GOD.
And how
HE
UN-COMPLICATES THE COMPLICATED
simply by being
WHO HE IS.
Especially when I stop striving
to un-complicate
what I have made so complicated.
"Be still, and know that I am GOD."
(Psalm 46:10)
Oh, those words!
So SIMPLE.
Yet sometimes,
so very hard to live.
TO BE STILL
when you want to fix things.
TO BE STILL
when you want to untangle things.
TO BE STILL
when you want to change things.
Because when something is wrong,
I want to make it right.
When something is tangled,
I want to straighten it out.
And when something isn't changing,
I want to make it change!
I want. I want. I want.
But what does GOD WANT me to do?
BE STILL AND KNOW THAT GOD IS GOD!
Two actions.
TO BE STILL and TO KNOW!
For you can't do one without the other.
TO BE STILL
when I want to fix things,
AND
TO KNOW THAT I AM GOD.
TO BE STILL
when I want to untangle things,
AND
TO KNOW THAT I AM GOD.
TO BE STILL
when I want to change things
AND
TO KNOW THAT I AM GOD."
Because BEING STILL isn't simply about
what I STOP doing.
It's about
WHO I TRUST
when I stop trying to control everything.
Oh, the FREEDOM
of knowing that
GOD IS GOD
and
TO KNOW THAT I AM NOT!
For to
BE STILL AND KNOW THAT GOD IS GOD
is not doing nothing.
It is choosing to TRUST the ONE who can do what I cannot.
Because
GOD IS GOD.
And no circumstance,
no person,
and no problem
can change
WHO HE IS.
So take a breath.
And another.
And another.
And BE STILL.
Not because everything has been fixed.
Not because every knot has been untangled.
Not because everyone has changed.
But because
GOD HAS NOT CHANGED.
And HE KNOWS
what you cannot see.
HE KNOWS
what you cannot understand.
HE KNOWS
what you cannot control.
And HE KNOWS
you and I far better
than we KNOW ourselves.
So perhaps the greatest thing that happens in the
STILLNESS
isn't that everything around us changes.
Perhaps it is that
we
BEGIN TO CHANGE.
Therefore,
will you join me
AND BE STILL,
releasing
what you cannot fix,
surrender
what you cannot untangle,
and trust HIM
with what you cannot change.
Because it is in the
STILLNESS,
when GOD reminds you
that it was never about what
you or I
CAN DO.
It has always been about
WHO HE IS.
For
"IN THE STILLNESS, HE IS GOD"
(listen to the song below)
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