A Piece of
Peace for Today
I’m
struck this morning with Psalm 46. It is
a good and timely passage. I especially
love the idea of “Be still and know that I am God.”
In
my reading today this idea cropped up.
What if we interpret this passage in this light?
“Be
Still” becomes “Stop striving. Stop
fighting. Christians-snap out of
it. Understand who God is.”
Whoa! That’s pretty fresh. What this says to me is this …
~Slow
down and come to grips with a reframed sense of God. Has he changed? Has he abandoned us and our world? Has He abandoned us and His plan for the
redemption of mankind? Is the world
going to end tomorrow, or the day after the next election?
If
you read my Facebook feed, you would think we are doomed to Hell and there is
absolutely no hope for anyone anywhere in the world. We have strife, wars, invasions of other
lands, Congress up in arms, apparent corruption at many levels of our own US
government as well as in other governments in other lands. And the list goes on.
Is
God’s attention diverted?
Is
He asleep at the wheel?
No
– emphatically NO!
The
first verse of Psalm 46 stabilizes us, I think.
“God
is our refuge and strength, our very present help in trouble.
Therefore,
we will not fear, even if the earth is removed, and the mountains fall into the
seas.”
Go
and read the whole chapter for yourself.
You just might receive your great word of hope and you’ll actually look
forward to awakening to a world full of bright hope for tomorrow.
P Michael Biggs
Hope~Encouragement~Inspiration
