Ps.46:10 – Be still, and know that I am God…
This may not make sense to those who are not following the Lord, all of us want to do something. Start the year with a flurry, have a New Year’s resolution, start an exercise program, read more of the Bible, go back to church. You know I am for all of those things but those things alone are not the answer to fix us or our situations. What am I even talking about then? Our solution to anything or everything does not start with us but it all starts with Him. Be still!!! Be still and know!!! God says, “Be still and know that I am God”. This is where all life begins, it starts with resting not in doing. Fruitful doing is the results of following the Lord in this verse, “Be still and know that I am God”. Take a few minutes this morning, read carefully this quote from Jonathan Edwards, this could be the beginning of something special.
“1. A duty described, to be still before God, and under the dispensations of his providence; which implies that we must be still as to words; not speaking against the sovereign dispensations of Providence, or complaining of them; not darkening counsel by words without knowledge, or justifying ourselves and speaking great swelling words of vanity. We must be still as to actions and outward behaviour, so as not to oppose God in his dispensations; and as to the inward frame of our hearts, cultivating a calm and quiet submission of soul to the sovereign pleasure of God, whatever it may be. 2. We may observe the ground of this duty, namely, the divinity of God. His being God is a sufficient reason why we should be still before him, in no wise murmuring, or objecting, or opposing, but calmly and humbly submitting to him. 3. How we must fulfill this duty of being still before God, namely, with a sense of his divinity, as seeing the ground of this duty, in that we know him to be God. Our submission is to be such as becomes rational creatures. God doth not require us to submit contrary to reason, but to submit as seeing the reason and ground of submission. Hence, the bare consideration that God is God may well be sufficient to still all objections and oppositions against the divine sovereign dispensations.”
Edwards can be hard to understand so let me give you the short simple version
1. Be still in our words and actions in the midst of adverse circumstances. Watch and observe what He is doing
2. Recognize that He is Lord and surrender to Him – AGAIN!!!
3. Acknowledge again that God is God. It may take a little while to understand what He is doing.
2026 can be a tremendous year for God’s people. The rest of the world is stuck responding to adversity and confusion as it comes. We are different, our eyes are on Him and not our circumstances.