Be still...

At times I feel like this world is spinning at 90 miles an hour and we are just running to keep up. With work, nursing school, Africa deadlines, and various other commitments over the past few weeks I sometimes felt like I was forgetting to even breathe. Every time I would take a moment to pray or read my Bible I couldn't focus because I was thinking about all the stuff I needed to do when I finished. When I prayed about the anxiety and stress from the countless things going on in my life I felt like God was telling me to just "be still".


Be still? Yeah, right. I didn't have time to be still. I had stuff to get done and not enough hours in the day to do it. When all that was going on became to overwhelming towards the end of the week, I broke down and finally listened to God. I realized that his command to "be still" was for my benefit and I was just being too stubborn to actually listen. He wanted me to take a minute to realize who I was praying to.


God commands us to be still:
Psalm 46:10-"Be still, and know that I am God."

How many times have we read or heard this part of verse 10 but forget the true meaning of it. God is the Lord Almighty. That's not something to be overlooked. Do we really understand what it means to know that He is God? I am constantly in awe of how big and powerful God is, yet, when a lot is piled on my plate and I feel like I can't handle it I push God to the side and forget how supreme He truly is. God commands us to "be still" because He wants us to understand the magnitude of Him and to realize that we don't have anything to be anxious about. In Philippians 4:6, the command is simple. We don't have to worry about anything. All we have to do is give it to God. We have to understand and know that He is God, not little "g" god, but God over everything and sometimes it takes being still and quiet in His presence to try and grasp that.


I realized the importance of the command of just being still in a week where the world around me seemed to be running at a sprinters pace. It's a command that I don't need to overlook because in doing so I wasn't taking time to remind myself of how big God really is. If I had taken a moment earlier in this past week just to "be still", I would have realized sooner that there was nothing to stress about because my God was bigger than everything I had to do. It's incredible to know that we have the God over all of the heavens and earth on our side. No test, deadline, or anything else we have going on is bigger than the God we serve. 
Philippians 4: 19 says "And my God will meet ALL your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus". He will meet all my needs. There is nothing to worry about. I need to learn to step aside and let him be God.