Psalm 46:10–Be Still and Know

Psalm 46:10: "Be still and know that I am God."

Here's a news flash: life is tough.  It is exhausting, stressful, and the swings of emotionality border on vertiginous.  Therefore, it is all the more vital that amidst such an undulating life, a life that is naturally bent on unsteadiness, that we would have a solid rock on which to stand secure and strong.  There is, it turns out, no more solid and stable a rock than the rock of God, which is Christ Jesus.

All this being true and good, it is a necessary thing, then, that when life becomes too overwhelming for us to process effectively that we would pause to realign ourselves to the rock of Christ.  This is what this verse is about.  Let us take it as a prescription when life gets tough as well as when life gets easy, always setting ourselves sure in Christ and in Christ alone!

Be Still and Know

Psalm 46:10: "Be still and know that I am God."

This is one of those great verses in Scripture.  It encapsulates so much of the Christian life yet it is almost bafflingly simple.  There are two ways to consider this verse: either as descriptive or prescriptive.

As a description, this verse relates to us the effortless holiness of the God who is.  God does not need to strive or strain to be who He is, He just is.  On the other hand, as a prescription, this verse  prescribes for us the way for us to recognize in our depths the vastness of the God who is.  It is in stillness, in being quiet that we know, truly know, who God is in the most intimate sense.  Let us then take the time to be still and be quiet so that we may experience the knowledge of God in the most intimate way!