Be Still and Be….
Many years ago I read the following “Be still and know that I am God” which of course is a quote from Psalm 46 in the Bible. But it was the way it was written down that drew my attention. I share it here this morning in our current world wide crisis of the Covid 19 pandemic.
Be still and know that I am God.
Be still and know that I am.
Be still and know that!
Be still and know.
Be still.
Be!
With all of the current ‘goings on in the world’ that have been called to a halt we are being mandated by the ‘powers that be’ to come back to the opportunity to just….well …be.
I have always been full of questions! So my question now is do I even know how to be? What does it even mean to be? My trusted guide is the Bible since I believe it to be the inspired word of the God who formed me.
Each year on my birthday I like to read Psalm 139 because it particularly reminds me that I would not be here on earth had it not been for the truth I find in verse 13 which says: “for you (God) created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.”
I have a new ‘great-grand,’ as I like to call my great-grandchildren. It is my 60 plus year old son’s first grand baby. In this current age of instant access to everything it is a joy for me to see my ‘great-grand’ almost everyday through myriad of pictures. One of the earliest pictures was of him nursing at his mother’s breast and immediately my mind remembered a phrase from Psalm 22 which says :”..You (God) brought me out of the womb; you (God) made me trust in you, even at my mother’s breast.” (NIV)
But perhaps my favorite of recent is my son holding Mikey Marvin under his precious little arms and talking gently to him and Mikey is trying so hard to talk back. The powerful impact that came to me is that precious child can not do anything for himself but cry. He cannot feed himself, change himself, take care of himself only cry for help and when responded to respond in kind.
So perhaps in this critical time in our world we all can come to value once more what every infant knows from birth that he is dependent on someone. And the God I believe in claimed it was He who made it so and it will always be so.
So today even though it is hard to just … be.. I can… Be still and know that He is God.
I pray that for you as well!
References:
Be Still and Be….
Many years ago I read the following “Be still and know that I am God” which of course is a quote from Psalm 46 in the Bible. But it was the way it was written down that drew my attention. I share it here this morning in our current world wide crisis of the Covid 19 pandemic.
Be still and know that I am God.
Be still and know that I am.
Be still and know that!
Be still and know.
Be still.
Be!
With all of the current ‘goings on in the world’ that have been called to a halt we are being mandated by the ‘powers that be’ to come back to the opportunity to just….well …be.
I have always been full of questions! So my question now is do I even know how to be? What does it even mean to be? My trusted guide is the Bible since I believe it to be the inspired word of the God who formed me.
Each year on my birthday I like to read Psalm 139 because it particularly reminds me that I would not be here on earth had it not been for the truth I find in verse 13 which says: “for you (God) created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.”
I have a new ‘great-grand,’ as I like to call my great-grandchildren. It is my 60 plus year old son’s first grand baby. In this current age of instant access to everything it is a joy for me to see my ‘great-grand’ almost everyday through myriad of pictures. One of the earliest pictures was of him nursing at his mother’s breast and immediately my mind remembered a phrase from Psalm 22 which says :”..You (God) brought me out of the womb; you (God) made me trust in you, even at my mother’s breast.” (NIV)
But perhaps my favorite of recent is my son holding Mikey Marvin under his precious little arms and talking gently to him and Mikey is trying so hard to talk back. The powerful impact that came to me is that precious child can not do anything for himself but cry. He cannot feed himself, change himself, take care of himself only cry for help and when responded to respond in kind.
So perhaps in this critical time in our world we all can come to value once more what every infant knows from birth that he is dependent on someone. And the God I believe in claimed it was He who made it so and it will always be so.
So today even though it is hard to just … be.. I can… Be still and know that He is God.
I pray that for you as well!
References:
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