Be Still ... and Just Know

A few weeks ago while jogging a blog post popped into my head … This is how I live my life a series of blog posts written perfectly in my head … clearly they rarely truly ever get written because I’m like the rest of the world, full of ideas, short on time. I was thinking about our schedule and wondering why in the world did I … me … not at the request of my girls, commit my pre-schoolers to in t-ball, gymnastics, and soccer … and if we are totally honest, I really want to sign the girls up for dance. I danced so don’t they need to dance, too? Yes, the answer is yes; it will always be yes. Do they want to dance … maybe 2 out of 3; therefore, we totally need to add that to our list of weekly activities. Thankfully, I had a morsel of common sense and wasn’t ready to be busy with all the things. I still desperately want us to routinely have dinner together at home every night because I know there will come a season when we don’t. And that’s when God just simply said BE STILL. … maybe it wasn’t simply if I am putting it in all caps.

We can get caught up doing all the things and going to all the places that we don’t leave time for God. He’s there when we need Him. He’s there when we want Him. But are we there when He needs us? Are we there when He wants to use us? What if Moses had been busy with t-ball and gymnastics and had missed the burning bush. What if Abraham said, “Wait a second … we have a soccer game Saturday, I’ll have to take Issac up the Mountain on Monday. But God … this is really going to ruin our season. Our teams needs him.” You know maybe basketball practice would have kept David from spying on Bathsheba … but we'll just never know.

God calls us to be still and KNOW that He is God. In a world that is busy with all the things and going to all the places. He needs something big to make us pause and actually be still. I heard someone say Sunday, instead of us going to His house to worship, we are finally inviting Him into our house to worship. We’ve live-streamed Him into our TVs, our phones, or tablets, our computers. A place where He might not normally be present. BUT, a place where He desperately needs to be present. He’s a big God. A miraculous God. He can powerfully eradicate this virus or any virus in our lives with a simple breathe, a mere whisper. Let’s just finally be still and know that He is God.