Psalm 46:10 “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
I think something God’s been teaching me recently is to find stillness in the business. Especially to find stillness in my busy, often overthinking, mind. Do I have it all figured out? Not even close! In complete honesty, today has been a day where I have not been able to get my mind to rest at all. So do I feel in the least bit qualified to talk about finding stillness in God? Nope haha!
I have had psalm 46:10 in my mind and in my heart for probably over a year now. It’s like whenever I would get super worried, God would just pop that verse in my head. Recently when thinking of new ideas for sweaters God just popped that verse in my head again. Along with the passage in Matthew 6:25-34 (I really encourage you to read this if you haven’t already). In this passage Jesus is basically just telling us not to worry. He talks about birds and flowers and how our heavenly Father cares for them, feeds them, and dresses them. He then goes on to say that if our Father cares for them then how would he not care for us. At the end of this passage He says, “So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
These two passages are truths that I hold on to when my mind gets a bit crazy. I’ve realized that in my worry I am often trying to control a situation in which I don’t have control. In my worry I am often actively showing God that I dont trust Him when I try to take things that are in God’s hands into my own.
Worry often comes when there seems to be nothing I can actively do to solve a problem. That is when I need to be still and know that the Lord is God. Sometimes all you can do is pray and rest in the character and promises of God. That might seem like a scary place to be. But it is actually a beautiful place to be because in your strength there is nothing you can do so you must become dependent on God. It is a beautiful thing to find stillness in worry. It is so sweet to rest in the comfort and character of God.
He is a good God even if you don’t see the answer to prayer. He is good in the waiting. He is good in the worry. He is good in the anxiousness. He is good and He is working even when you can not see it!
I made this sweater as a reminder to myself that God is working in the waiting and sometimes all you need to do is be still.