Be Still I've Got it From Here!

Psalms 46:1-10

 

There are times when the vicissitudes of life are rolling in like the tides of a tsunami; there are times when the dark clouds of depression have settled overhead; and there are those times when your house just does not seem like a home. In those times when the problem seems to be much larger than you. It is in this moment that God simply says, "BE STILL, I've got it from here!"

As Christians, we are not promised that there will not be botherations, complications, and enigmatic conundrums that are sometimes stiffling. We are not given a guarantee of effortless progression; on the contrary, we are told that without question, trials are going to come. In John 16:33, Jesus says, "These things have I spoken unto you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulations; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."

The joy and peace does not come in the absence of struggle, but despite it.

Paul tells us that we are to "glory in our tribulations", and James admonishes us to "count it all Joy when we fall into vairous trials.' Each of these passages are written under the postulation that the trials are inevitable. There is no circumvention of the trials of this life. There is never a question as to if, just when.

The writer of Psalm 46 gets right to the point in verse one; "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." There is a wealth of doctrinal truth embedded in this one scripture.

First, we find that God is our refuge. This means he provides shelter from the dangers that surround us. He is our covering and comforter.

Next, we see that he is the source of our strength. It is in God that we live, move, and have our being. No matter how weak we may seem at any given moment of difficulty, we know that in God our weakness is the means by which God's strength is revealed and released. God shows up in the midst of our weaknesses and provides the strength necessary to emerge triumphantly.

The next couple of verses point to the fact that the writer is not willing to be moved by his circumstances. Though the enemy may be closing in, though the economy may be in decline, though relational situations are in flux, my unerstanding of who God is and who I am in Him, will not allow me to waver. I cannot be shaken by the outward circumstance because the inward man has been fed by the Spirit. The inward man (my spirit) is in constant communication with the Holy Spirit that resides within me and the Holy Spirit speaks to my spirit and says peace. 

Dr. Rick Wallace

Jesus said that the Holy Spirit would bring to remembrance all that we had been taught. So, when the burdens of life begin to press us down, there should be something in our spirit that reminds us that NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST US SHALL PROSPER, it should bring to our remembrance that WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS, it should remind us that GOD WILL NEVER LEAVE US NOR FORSAKE US. There should be something in our spirit that disagrees with our circumstances.

To close things out, the writer speaks God's admonishment, "Be still". Sometimes the battle has worn you down. Sometimes you look up and there is nothing left. No matter how hard you try, you can't press forward. By all accounts, it seems as if the enemy has finally won.

You try to pray, but the words don't flow forward with any fluency. You turn to friends, but you find them complaining too. You turn to mother, but mother is incapable of producing any relief. At this moment of coliginous despair, God steps in and simply says, "BE STILL, I've got it from here.  Dr. Rick Wallace