Be Still

Before anything else — before your phone, before the news, before today's list — this verse asks for something both simple and difficult: stop. Be still.

The Hebrew word here carries the idea of letting go, of loosening the tension. Like when you drop your shoulders after a long day. God is saying: you can let go. You don't have to hold onto everything. Be still.

And then comes the "knowing" — a certainty born in silence. That He is God. Not you. Not your circumstances. Not your boss, not your bank account, not your diagnosis. Him.

The silence of the morning holds a power that the noise of the day drowns out. It's in that silence that many important truths manage to reach us — about God, about ourselves, about what really matters.

Today, give God a few minutes before the day takes everything. Sit. Breathe. Let the Spirit of God settle over you. Sometimes the deepest prayer begins with silence.