Be Still, and Know
A single line from the Psalms asks the tired reader to stop moving long enough to remember who holds the day.
Psalm 46 was written for a people who had reason to be afraid. Nations were in uproar, kingdoms fell, and the ground itself seemed unsteady. Into that noise comes one instruction: "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."
Notice that the stillness comes first. The knowing follows. We are not told to reason our way to calm, but to stop, and to let the stopping make room for what is already true.
To be still is not to do nothing. It is to set down, for a moment, the belief that everything depends on us. The verse does not promise that the nations will quiet down. It promises that God will be exalted among them, in his own time.
If you are tired today, begin here. You do not have to hold the earth together. That work is already taken.
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