“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
Psalms 46:10 ESV
And when that happens, all of our temporal cares and worries and labors won’t have the attention of our hearts and minds, will they?
And yet… I find myself falling into the trap of forgetting that
, although the full exaltation of God in all the earth is yet to come, stillness is commanded now. Knowledge of God is something to seek now. God’s exaltation is already happening, now.
How is he exalted? In the hearts and lives of his followers, now, growing and spreading over the earth. Now.
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. – Habakkuk 2:14 ESV
To live in this “not yet”
, now, as if it already is, brings it about.small and close and (I hope this makes sense) is all a part of bringing it to completion far and wide.
I’m wiped out by the cares of this world; in particular by cares related to my family. It’s natural and tempting to look toward a future, a “then”, when I’m through with the day to day struggles and efforts. Then I will be able to be still.
The passage’s grammar doesn’t allow that.
Be still and know. Now.