Active Still

Being still is most often an active endeavor.  Just ask a 2nd grader in the middle of the school day.  Being still can use up every ounce of energy you have.  

Life continually throws stuff at you to get you to move.  Bad news, a friend’s betrayal, rejection, a diagnosis, and the list goes on almost infinitely.  Life is certainly not a game, but Dodgeball does appear to be a good analogy here.   

In the world, circumstances come at us in never ending succession, making us flinch against impact.  In our effort to stay clear of those circumstances, we juke and bend and move and dive and so forth until we are completely worn down.  Once in this state we are easy pickings and our destruction comes unseen from a direction we had not even considered - “out of left field” as is the common reference.

“Be Still” is the command in the Psalm.  “Know that I am God.”  He is God.  Not only your God, but God over the circumstance; God over the world.  Whatever circumstance faced, God is God.  He sees the pending danger.  He is not surprised and is not scared.  God don’t dodge.  

The circumstances will come your way.  You are facing life’s fury.  Now, summon the strength and still yourself.  God is God.  Be Still.  

Psalms 46:10