Be Still and Know...

Is there ever a non-busy time of the year?  Perhaps in the dead of winter, after the holidays and before Spring arrives with all its outdoor demands on our yards and houses.  Do we even want to slow down?  All of my kids are out on their own and I thought this would be the slow years...times of rocking chairs and knitting.  (I really tried with all my heart to learn how to knit, I promise, but I just ended up wanting to stab something or someone with those needles.) My grandma taught me how to crochet....does that count? ANYWAY, no rocking chairs, no knitting, no time for anything like that.  I am just as busy now as I was when my kids were little.  It's just a different busy. 
It's like what they say about money...you spend what you make.  We spend all the time we have doing something, and our deeds may be good, but are we missing the best things?  God tells us in His word to "Be still and know that I am God." Psalm 46:10  He goes on to say "I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."  He isn't telling us what we should do, He is telling us He WILL be exalted. Don't you want to be a part of that?  Well, I do. 
Let's be still and know that He alone is God.  There is no other real, true, alive, sovereign God.  He is it.  He is a writer, too.  In fact He is THE author of it all.  So let's begin by just being still and knowing that.  Take a moment...stop in the midst of your busyness and know He is God.  Once we do this, we will ask ourselves who are we.....that He would even be mindful of us?
Psalm 8 says it all.
O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
 Out of the mouth of babes and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
  Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.
 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,
 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,
  the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Make "being still" a part of your day.  Spend time doing things that will matter for eternity. 
"Only one life, 'twill soon be past, only what's done for Christ will last."  C.T. Studd, missionary to China, India, and Africa.

Be still and know that He is God.