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Day 6Be Still and Know Tuesday, February 20, 2018
“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
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Devotional:
Step out of your world for a minute, or an hour. Step into His. Seek a solitary corner of His hushed and unhurried universe and be still. Stop striving, stop driving, stop clinging to barely surviving. Be still and listen to His life teeming about you: the rustling leaves, the rippling stream, the songs of the winter birds.
We tend to think of winter as a time of lifelessness and dormancy. Sometimes bleak and desolate, as it stretches on with feelings of depression and hopelessness. But, that is because we aren’t listening to the right voice, not receiving His Truth. We strive against ourselves and keep our gaze fixed solely on our anxious, tired faces.
But, that’s not God’s winter! In His beautiful, natural world, winter is the time of rebirth and regeneration! Lying underneath the snow and coursing beneath the roots of trees and plants, is new life- the new year- the new season, preparing for emergence and flowering in the Spring.
Be still and know… God is Life and while we struggle with despair and discouragement, He has already set a whole new season in motion. And He is waiting for us to join Him in receiving this life, to become a part of the rebirth- the New Birth. He will be exalted!! He speaks of the promise of the coming Savior in every moment of this purposeful winter season of preparation and expectancy.
Be still and know that I am God… when we are still, we can hear His voice. At the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, in the winter, Jesus walked in the temple, Solomon’s porch, and spoke...“my sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. And I will give them eternal life, and they shall never perish...” (John 10:27-28).
Be Still and know that I am God… and armed with this knowing, let Him speak Life into your winter soul.
We tend to think of winter as a time of lifelessness and dormancy. Sometimes bleak and desolate, as it stretches on with feelings of depression and hopelessness. But, that is because we aren’t listening to the right voice, not receiving His Truth. We strive against ourselves and keep our gaze fixed solely on our anxious, tired faces.
But, that’s not God’s winter! In His beautiful, natural world, winter is the time of rebirth and regeneration! Lying underneath the snow and coursing beneath the roots of trees and plants, is new life- the new year- the new season, preparing for emergence and flowering in the Spring.
Be still and know… God is Life and while we struggle with despair and discouragement, He has already set a whole new season in motion. And He is waiting for us to join Him in receiving this life, to become a part of the rebirth- the New Birth. He will be exalted!! He speaks of the promise of the coming Savior in every moment of this purposeful winter season of preparation and expectancy.
Be still and know that I am God… when we are still, we can hear His voice. At the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, in the winter, Jesus walked in the temple, Solomon’s porch, and spoke...“my sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. And I will give them eternal life, and they shall never perish...” (John 10:27-28).
Be Still and know that I am God… and armed with this knowing, let Him speak Life into your winter soul.
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Lord God, quiet my mind, bring me to stillness away from my world, entering yours in your Presence. Display your Presence to me, and in my stillness, let me hear your voice so that I may follow you. Through the treasure of prayer, let me see your hope in all things and in all seasons.
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