God says: be still. Stop striving. Stop trying to solve and fix and control. In that stillness, know Me. Know that I am God.
There's a progression here. Stillness comes first. Knowledge follows. We want to reverse it. We want to know first, with certainty and clarity, and then we'll be still. But the psalm says knowledge of God emerges in the presence of stillness.
My mind runs constantly. Plans, worries, conversations I should have had, things I should have said, strategies for the future. Even in prayer, I'm doing something, pushing toward something, trying to achieve spiritual progress. The psalm invites something radically different. What if I just stopped? Sat still with whatever is happening. Felt the ground under me. Noticed what I'm actually afraid of. And in that naked presence, let God's reality dawn on me. Not through understanding more. Through understanding less and being present to what is.
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