Day 4 of 7, a study on rest that isn't retirement.
I am not naturally good at being still. Thirty-two years of solving problems for a living built a mind that wants to fix, plan, or at minimum organize whatever's in front of it, and retirement hasn't switched that mind off just because the job ended.
"He says, 'Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.'"
Psalm 46:10
This verse comes in the middle of a psalm about nations in chaos and mountains falling into the sea, which is not a peaceful backdrop for being told to sit still. That's exactly the point. Stillness here isn't the absence of a reason to be anxious. It's a decision made in the middle of a legitimate reason, trusting that God being God is enough of a foundation even while everything else is moving.
I don't have nations falling into the sea. I have a quieter version of the same restlessness. Same instruction, though.
Today's Question
What's the "chaos" in your own life right now that stillness feels hardest in the middle of?
A Short Prayer
Lord, being still doesn't come naturally to me. Help me know that you are God today, in the middle of whatever's moving, and let that be enough. Amen.
God bless,
Paul