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"Be still, and know that I am God." — Psalm 46:10
There's an old story about a rescue team in the Swiss Alps that every guide and mountaineer knows well. Back in the early 1900s, a group of hikers got caught in a dense fog on a mountain pass. Visibility dropped to almost nothing. Panic set in, and the group began scattering in different directions, each person certain they knew which way led to safety. By morning, two of them had wandered off the trail and into danger. But one hiker, an old shepherd who happened to be with them, just sat down on a rock, pulled his coat around him, and waited. When the fog finally lifted, he stood up, looked at the landscape for about thirty seconds, and said, "This way." He walked out without a single wrong step.
The ones who ran nearly got themselves killed. The one who sat still made it home.
I think about that story a lot, especially in the middle of the hard seasons. You know the ones I mean. The season where everything feels like a fog, where you can't see which way is forward, and every instinct in you is screaming to do something, anything, just move. And friend, I have to tell you, I have made some of my worst decisions in that kind of fog. I'm too soon old and too late smart on this one.
God says something to us in Psalm 46:10 that runs completely against the grain of every self-help book ever written. He says, "Be still, and know that I am God." Not be strategic. Not be proactive. Not hustle harder. Be still.
Now I don't think He's telling us to be passive about life. But I do think He's telling us that there are moments when the most spiritually powerful thing we can do is stop, sit down on that rock, and trust that the fog will lift. Because it will. It always does, when we are trusting the One who controls the weather.
In my years as a chaplain, I've sat with people in some of the darkest fog they'd ever faced. And I've noticed something. The ones who fight the fog, who thrash against it and demand answers right now, often end up more disoriented than when they started. But the ones who learn to be still, who say "Lord, I don't know the way, but You do," those people find a peace that genuinely passes understanding.
Be still. Know that He is God. The fog will lift.
Let's pray: Father, when we can't see the path ahead, quiet our anxious hearts. Teach us to be still before You, trusting that You know exactly where we are and exactly how to bring us home. In Jesus' name, Amen.
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SHOW NOTES
Episode Title: The Power of Being Still | Nightlight with RTTBROS
Episode Description:
In this episode of Nightlight with RTTBROS, Gene Kissinger shares a powerful piece of bible wisdom daily drawn from Psalm 46:10. When life feels like a fog that won't lift, practical biblical wisdom reminds us that the best move is sometimes no move at all. This devotion offers christian wisdom for anyone who's been running hard and getting nowhere fast.
Scripture Reference: Psalm 46:10
Full Transcript: [See devotion text above]
Reflection Questions:
What "fog" are you currently trying to navigate on your own, and what would it look like to actually be still before God in that situation?
Think of a time you made a decision in panic that you later regretted. What might have been different if you had waited on God?
What practical habit, whether prayer, scripture reading, or quiet time, could help you "be still" more consistently in daily life?
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