The Strokes of My Pen, The Pages of My Journal

An excerpt from my journal:

May 14, 2010

"... God kept telling me 'I'm not always loud. You don't need to constantly be speaking. Let Me speak to you in the stillness. There is beauty in stillness. Be quiet and let Me speak to you through stillness.' So, I sat there with my hands folded over my chest, breathing, feeling my heart beat against my hands. He said 'I'm closer than your heart beat, I'm more constant than your heart beat, I'm more faithful than your heart beat, I give more life than your heart beat, I last longer than your heart beat...'"



I wonder how many of us really needed to hear that and know that? ... and live like that?


Matthew 8:23-27; Matthew 14:32; Mark 4:35-41; Luke 8:22-25 all tell of Jesus calming the storm.

Do you have a storm in your life that you need "stilled"?

First, understand that God is more reliable, faithful, constant, lasting, and present than your heart beat.

Second, understand that God will still that storm inside of you or around you without you trying to do it on your own (Exodus 14:14)

and Thirdly, you can't do this whole peaceful stillness thing without Him. So don't even try.


Psalm 46:10
"Be still and know that I am God."

2 Corinthians 12:9
"But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me."



Hmm.. I needed to hear that.