Be Still And Know ...

I sit on my deck and am enjoying the stillness of the morning. The sun is up, the skies are blue and the songs of the cicadas, and the chirping of the birds outplay the busy sounds of human traffic on the expressway nearby.

I sigh a wonderful, happy sigh. The stillness is sometimes broken by the gentle caress of the morning breeze and I enjoy the feel of the coolness of the wind. It feels almost like the Lord walking by and allowing his fingers to touch each leaf as He passes. Was it the wind that ruffled my hair?

My mind is drawn to the Song of the Psalmist in Psalm 46 where in verse 10, the Psalmist says, "Be still, and know that I am God;" How beautiful a psalm that asks us to simply be still ... AND know that our Father is God.

Do we rush around being busy doing God's work? Do we feel we need to be like "kan cheong spiders" to be noticed by God? Do we in our eagerness to please Him, try to DO instead of to BE? BE still says the Psalmist ... simply BE still to feel the presence of God.

This morning as I contemplate on Psalms 46, I am stilled and I am sure I felt the presence of God ... right here in my garden, as He passed like a breeze.

I feel His presence right now, right here ... in my heart.

Praise the Lord!