We’re busy people. Between work and home, family and friends, full schedules and unending tasks, it’s tempting to hurry through our days without even stopping to look up. It’s important to make time to be still.
But, speaking through the psalmist, God said:
“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Psalms 46:10 NIV
When was the last time you were intentionally still (and not just when you were sleeping)? When was your body and mind quiet enough to acknowledge that God is God?
Regardless of the past, what will you choose today?
You can close this page, maybe check “time with God” off your to-do list, and continue on with business as usual. Or you can allow the knowledge and truth of God to bring peace to your restless heart.
There’s something about stillness that compels us beyond ourselves. There’s something about stillness that heightens our awareness of and need for God.
It’s one thing to acknowledge God with our words, but another to put Him above every other good, bad, and distracting thing in our lives—to live in a way that honors and magnifies Him.
There will come a day when, ready or not, God will reveal Himself fully. There will come a day when, willing or not, every secret will come to light. There will come a day when, like it or not, He will be exalted above the nations and honored throughout the world.
But you don’t have to wait to acknowledge Him. You don’t have to wait to call Him your God. You don’t have to wait to make Him the Lord and King of your life. As human beings, we all worship something or someone, this is an important fact to consider. And while all of that is true, consider giving that devotion and admiration to the One who created you… He is God, lord of all created things.
You can be still —right now—and know that He is God.
Find rest, knowing that He loves you and has a plan and purpose for your life.
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