Monday, July 7, 2008

Vacation plans

I am currently reading Philip yancey's "Prayer". In it he visits the common verse of Psalm 46:10
10 "Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth."

Yancey talks about how BE still in latin means to vacate. so he goes on to say that what God is telling us is we need to take a VACATION from being God and let God be God for a while.

That really shook me. I had never heard that before. It is so true, I hardly give God the chance to be GOD. I am always trying to make sure that everything will be fine, with my own limited ability.

I looked up be still on the internet in Latin.
sileo- to be silent, still, inactive.

So my challenge is to take a vacation from being "God" let him run everything without being in the way. To be inactive and silent. Not inactive as not doing anything, but from trying to be God. So if I quit trying to rule my world, the little world I setup for myself, and realize that I too was not there when God made the earths foundations. I am but a small part of all of life.

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