Last week, our church collectively engaged in a fast. It took different forms from abstaining from food, to limiting or eliminating social media, to focusing more on the Word and less on the countless other voices coming our way, to a variety of other things.

It proved to be a quieter week. Amazing how much of a difference it can make to limit who and what get to have a voice or say in your world, you know?

This fast led us into a week of focusing on Psalm 46. It’s the “be still and know” psalm.

As I’ve read and thought through the psalm, I was reminded of an exercise the chaplain led us through during a chapel session in college several years ago. 

If you have a moment, I’d encourage you to quiet your mind and read the following out loud, leaving some silence in between each line to see what the Lord has to say:

Be still and know that I am God.

Be still and know that I am.

Be still and know.

Be still.

Be.

May this passage give you peace in knowing that ultimately, no matter what happens, God is in control. He can handle it all. We’re just given the opportunity of being invited into the work He is doing.

If He spoke anything to you from this, I’d love for you to share!