Magnificent Prayer #155
Magnificent Prayer #155
Be still, and know that I am God.
Psalm 46:10
In order to really know God, inward stillness is absolutely necessary. I remember when I first learned this. A time of great emergency had risen in my life, when every part of my being seemed to throb with anxiety, and when the necessity for immediate and vigorous action seemed overpowering; and yet circumstances were such that I could do nothing, and the person who could, would not stir.
For a little while it seemed as if I must fly to pieces with the inward turmoil, when suddenly the still small voice whispered in the depths of my soul, “Be still, and know that I am God.” The word was with power, and I listened. I composed my body to perfect stillness, and I constrained my troubled spirit into quietness, and looked up and waited; and then I did “know” that it was God, God even in the very emergency and in my helplessness to meet it; and I rested in Him.
It was an experience that I would not have missed for worlds; and I may add also, that out of this stillness seemed to arise a power to deal with the emergency, that very soon brought it to a successful issue. I learned then effectually that my strength was to sit still.
HANNAH WHITALL SMITH
Pray About It: Emergencies prompt us to pray. But often our prayers are tainted by our anxiety. We pray to God, but with one eye still fixed to the trouble at hand. But when we look fully to God in stillness, with both eyes trained on Him, we display our faith.
God knows full well about your current problem. Not once has it been off His mind. And for that reason alone, you can rest and be still about its resolution. In God’s mind, the matter has already been settled. Watch and see.
Beloved! Let us take His stillness!
A. B. SIMPSON
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