BE STILL

BE STILL

Just before the coronavirus started taking its toll, a loud din could be heard throughout the world. People were toing and froing. Planks of wood were being hammered together. There was a busy busyness like bees at a hive, reminiscent of mankind at the Tower of Babel. As with a swarm of angry bees, so a frenetic and agitated mankind is best avoided. Be still! “Why are the nations so angry? Why do they waste their time with futile plans?” Psalm 2:1 NLT.

Ben & Loch Lomond, with Inchmurrin on right

As our government told us to stay at home, and the tumult of hammering still echoed in the distance, I watched a wee You Tube montage from Christians in Arrochar (where I used to holiday with my family as a child) and Luss (a picturesque village I used to visit on the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond, Scotland). Their theme, during this present world chaos, is from an appropriate and timely verse of Scripture, “Be still, and know that I am God! I will be honored by every nation. I will be honored throughout the world.” Psalm 46:10 NLT.

COVID 19 is the terror of the nations. What are we to do in the midst of all this panic and seeming chaos? We are to be still. Be still and what? “Be still, and know that I am God!”, that’s what. But God, why don’t You stop this virus? “Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorant words?” Job 38:2 NLT. The echo of the piledriving is still being heard in the glen. Bang! Bang! Bang!

Are we being still yet? Have we stopped shaking our fists at Heaven? Have we stopped being angry with God? Have the raging nations spent themselves yet? Have we finished with all our toing and froing? Are we done with our judgmentalism? Are we done judging God and judging each other? Are we all done with our hammering? Have we finished nailing Jesus to His cross yet? Have we raised the Saviour of the world on His cross for all the world to see yet? Are we still yet, really still? If so, then do exactly what God says, “Look to Me, and be saved, All you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.” Isaiah 45:2 NKJV.

See, from His head, His hands, His feet, 

sorrow and love flow mingled down. 

Did e’er such love and sorrow meet, 

or thorns compose so rich a crown?” Isaac Watts.

Therefore,

“Be still, my soul: when dearest friends depart,

and all is darkened in the vale of tears,

then shall you better know His love, His heart,

Who comes to soothe your sorrow and your fears.

Be still, my soul: your Jesus can repay

from His own fullness all He takes away.” Kathrina Von Schlegel.