Be still and know that He is God

“Your are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all thing, and by Your will they exist and were created” (Revelation 4:11).

Right now life is difficult. Many problems present themselves and I want God to give me explanations and answers. If not that, at least please comfort me. He is not doing any of what I want. Instead He instructs me to worship Him.

To worship God, I must not only consider who He is and what He does and is doing, but I must worship in spirit and in truth. That is impossible when I am fearful, troubled, anxious and filled with doubts. I need to be confident, focused on who He is, not on my problems. That means I must be filled with the Holy Spirit. God will fill me — as I confess my sins and come to Him with a contrite and trusting heart. I know all that, yet still say, “God, what about these problems, these other people?”

The pressures of the past few days include counseling both sides of a broken relationship, trying to comfort our daughter-in-law who has lost a young relative in an automobile accident, encouraging a dear friend through a huge series of tests involving not only a career move, but a move from one continent to another, and trying to hold on to both ends of a group of people polarized by a major decision. I want God to give me wisdom, strength, the right words, but He is telling me to worship Him.

I can just sense the wisdom of His thinking, barely. He is bigger than any problem and totally able to make sense of all confusion. He can bring peace where there is strife and joy even in the middle of trials. He is worthy of my full attention.

After all, there is absolutely nothing I can do anyway. He is the Reconciler, the Comforter, the great Problem-solver. When I worship Him, I have to stop fretting — and stop playing God — and simply acknowledge and rest in the reality of who He is.