Be still, and know that I am God…. Psalm 46:10
Our fathers had much to say about
stillness, and by stillness they meant the absence of motion or the absence of
noise, or both. They felt that they must be still for at least a part of the
day, or that day would be wasted!
God can be known in the tumult if His
providence has for the time placed us there, but He is known best in the
silence. So they held, and so the sacred Scriptures declare. Inward assurance
comes out of the stillness. We must be still to know!
There has hardly been another time in the
history of the world when stillness was needed more than it is today, and there
has surely not been another time when there was so little of it or when it was
so hard to find.
Christ is every man’s contemporary. His
presence and His power are offered to us in this time of mad activity and
mechanical noises as certainly as to fishermen on the quiet lake of Galilee or
to shepherds on the plains of Judea. The only condition is that we get still
enough to hear His voice and that we believe and heed what we hear.
As we draw nearer to the ancient Source of
our being we find that we are no longer learned or ignorant, modern or
old-fashioned, crude or cultured, white or colored: in that awesome Presence we
are just men and women. Artificial distinctions fade away. Thousands of years
of education disappear in a moment and we stand again where Adam and Eve stood
after the Fall, where Cain stood, and Abel, outside the Garden, frightened and
undone and fugitive from the terror of the broken law, desperately in need of a
Saviour!
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