Ps.46:10,11 – Be still, and know that I am God;

I will be exalted among the nations,

I will be exalted in the earth!

The LORD of hosts is with us;

The God of Jacob is our refuge.

Selah

The Lord has used Psalm 46 in my life in quite extraordinary ways over the years. First, today’s verse was spoken over me just as the Lord was preparing to send me into my lifelong assignment, to raise up and pastor a church in New Orleans. Secondly, He spoke the whole Psalm over me Himself in my hospital room in 2021 as I was hanging between the two worlds. What did those two visitations have in common? They both reminded me that God is God and my role is to rest in Him and allow Him to work out all the details in my life. Of course that doesn’t mean I am to do nothing, it means wait until He brings His clear plan into perspective and then run with fire. Here is how Jonathan Edwards describes this passage.

“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 fulfil 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.”

I really love this quote, once we come to the conclusion that He is God then by all means we are to be still before Him, worship Him, and follow His lead. In those two occurrences where the Lord spoke to me from Psalm 46 the first is still bearing fruit, as a result I have been serving in New Orleans since 1977 and am enjoying the Lord’s hand on my life. The second account is also still bearing fruit. He told me in the midst of the commotion in the world to still focus on what He called me to do. What was that? To follow Him and be a fisher of men.