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Be Still And Know That I Am God
Brian Mashburn
July 17, 2016
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Be Still... Yeah, Right
Today we consider what may be the most disobeyed instruction in all of scripture. It is found in Psalm 46:10: "Be still, and know that I am God."
Why is this so disregarded? Simple. We all feel too busy.
I remember when John Eldredge helped me see how busyness had penetrated our culture. He called it "the spirit of the age." Every age has its own ideas, thoughts, and values that slowly take over a culture and morally lulls everyone to sleep, gradually causing us to accept that society's standards. Busyness is the spirit of our age.
Think about it: What do we call someone who is not busy? LAZY! We do this to ourselves, too. If we aren't rushing from one demand to the next, we either feel useless, unneeded, guilty or... lazy.
Who has time to be still for anything? Let alone to do something as ambiguous and seemingly unproductive as just "knowing" that God is God.
I used to be a slave to busyness. I didn't feel like I was giving my all to God if there was a request that I said no to. I became a slave, not to Christ, but to busyness.
Even if it weren't necessary for life, God has given us the command to do it. We have no right to neglect it. For Christians, busyness is laziness. Moral and spiritual laziness. Can you accept that we are in sin if we are constantly tired, frantic, and without peace? You will have to stand in rebellion against our whole culture - against many (deceived) Christians even - to do it.
It's worth it. I cannot think of one problem that I have ever faced that was not helped by this one practice that we consider today: "Be still, and know that I am God."