Psalm 46:10 – Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!
Palm 46:10 was one of the very first words from the Lord I received as a young Christian. Prophet Dick Mills called me out in a service at our Bible College and gave me this verse as a word from the Lord. It was a word in season for me that changed the course of my life and set in motion a series of events that landed me in New Orleans to begin my ministry. God’s word is powerful and will radically renovate your life.
The ramifications of this verse are astonishingly simple, be still and know – be still and know Him as God. Here is how Jonathan Edwards describes this.
“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. 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.”
When we put ourselves in the posture of total surrender and resting in God and His plan it takes us out of the equation and puts all of our faith and confidence in God alone. He is more than able to bring about His plan and purposes in us and then through us. Here is how Augustine describes this.
“See, you are not God, but I am. I created you, and I recreate you; I formed you, and I form you anew; I made you, and I remake you. If you had no power to make yourself, how do you propose to remake yourself?”
It’s easy to fall into the idea that God exists to make my dreams come true, that is the source of great frustration and strife. Being still starts with surrender and acknowledgement that He is able to do all that is necessary in us to bring us to a place where He can work through us. So join with me today as I put my eyes on Jesus, stay still and acknowledge His goodness and greatness, and allow Him to continue His work in me and through me.
