SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 30:15 NIV In quietness and trust is your strength.
THOUGHT: We love to stay busy, and in some ways, it’s good. It’s industrious. In other ways, it’s soul deadening. Finding the dividing line is a spiritual task. If you and I trust God’s words, spoken through Isaiah, we will see that busy is not what God requires. It’s not to say we are to be idle, which Scripture also addresses, it’s that our lives, our actions, our moment-by-moment choices are to flow from the bedrock of trust. Our solid trust that God hears, knows, loves, and is in control will add a quietness to our lives. A quality of resting in grace and goodness despite what is going on around us. Less reactiveness and more wholeness or shalom. It goes against every fiber of our western self-made constitution, but it is the stillness that leads to knowing God is god (Ps. 46:10).
SONG: Be Still and Know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgaHaioAjyg
PRAYER: Teach us the line between busy lives that accomplish little and lives of stillness before you that accomplish your will, oh God.
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