Mark R Spencer
 
Woke up this morning…much earlier than planned…thinking about busyness.  Not business.  Busyness.  Why am I most comfortable moving?  Zooming?  And why is humanity sprinting in that same direction?  On one hand, I suspect we are doing our best to do our best.  On the other hand, I imagine we are burning a little anxiety along the way.  After all isn’t being alive about moving???  Then I read this Psalm.  Much of it was bland until I ran head long into this last verse.  I am quite familiar with this passage, but not in the way I heard it this morning.  Here’s how it shouted to me: Be STILL…AND know that I AM God.  The notion of stillness and the epiphany of God being in charge all working together hit me like the proverbial 2 by 4.  Is my running around fueled by my lack of who is sovereign and in charge?  Whew.  I had to be still and think about that.  What do you think?

 


Comments

Tom Stuart

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:10:34

A great reminder! Stillness seems to be more a state of mind than a physical setting. That is my battle ground - a roaming, anxious mind. Makes me mindful of Isaiah 26:3 "You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you."

 



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