Still

Still.  It is a still house.  But what about the house of my heart.  Is my heart still?

The first implication of stillness is that the house is down, not up, resting on something, not moving.  Wow.  What is required is to recognize the foundation.  Next is to be sure I am resting on it.  Not good enough to acknowledge it.  Got to make sure we are in contact.  Got to make sure I am on it.  Next, I have to declare that that is where I am supposed to be and where I desire to be and that it is where it is my will to be.

All with the understanding that the price was paid so that I could rest in God.  Thank you for the Blood of Jesus.

Why rest? To glorify God and enjoy Him forever.  How other than abiding in the rest of God do I glorify Him?  In Christ I find what I need, and He does in and through me what He desires.  In my abiding in the Spirit of God, my destiny is worked out.  In God is the Kingdom and in God I discover what is real.  In contrast I see the unreal character of the physical world, the political world, the intellectual world around me.  Abiding in Christ helps me to assess my circumstances in light of Kingdom reality.  What was intended, at least in part, to provoke a crisis in my life, an opportunity to respond in fear and invite more death, can be seen compared with the truth of living in the Kingdom of God.  The living Word of God rises with in me in response to lies, and I know what to do.

And in knowing, I can be still.

Father of Love and Life, thank you for loving me with your whole love.  Help me with the habit of stillness. Forgive me for this season of fear and death.  I want to be like a wick in the lamp.