Be still and know

The 'Be still, and know that I am God' verse is one of the most important and pivotal for our lives and faith journey. It's all about slowing our busy brain down and focusing it on God. It makes his character clearer to us, so that we get these little realisations going off in our soul, like, '"Wow, I never really felt how big God was until now" or "God actually does care about me." It's pretty obvious, but now I know it.'

But how do we 'be still'? In his book, Pray, Write, Grow, Ed Cyzewski describes one way. He says that both writing and prayer 'call us to a lifestyle of observation and self-reflection, which are two things that are hard to do in our distraction-filled world.' He suggests that writing can help prayer, and that prayer can help writing. That's because prayer helps us to see what we care about, and writing helps us to sort out those thoughts. When we write, we're processing the thoughts that build up in our head over time, and getting them in order. It gets our thoughts clearer so we know how to pray through them.

Writing and praying together could be the gateway for us to make the verse, 'Be still, and know that I am God,' real for our life.



So what now? Struggling to pray? Try writing your thoughts until they're sorted out in a way you can understand. Struggling to write? Pray until you realise what you need to write about.





— SCRIPTURE —

'Be still, and know that I am God.' Psalm 46:10 NKJV
— SOULFOOD —

1 Ki 3-5, Luke 11:1-13, Ps 36, Pro 5:21-23