{"id":444,"date":"2015-03-01T11:44:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T11:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2015-03-03T18:40:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T18:40:42","slug":"sabbath-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/sabbath-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabbath – #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Be still and know that I am God”<\/em> (Psalm 46:10)<\/p>\n

How can one be “still” in a society like ours?\u00a0 Our life is so\u00a0full and there are things that compete with every minute.\u00a0\u00a0We are made to feel guilty when being still. You are seen as lazy when taking time to be still.\u00a0 You should be doing something!<\/p>\n

The Scriptures teach us to be good workers.\u00a0 They even teach us to be hard workers. God does not appreciate the lazy, but this is not to be done at the expense of rest and being “still” before God.\u00a0 From the garden of Eden God has instituted the Sabbath principle.\u00a0 It is a regular rhythm of rest before God.<\/p>\n

God knows that we need this.\u00a0 He also knows that it cannot truly take place unless we “know” Him.\u00a0 You cannot really experience the “still” of this verse without the “know”.\u00a0 We can never totally rest…relax…be still unless we know that God is God.\u00a0 This is the knowledge that life, ours included, depends on Him.\u00a0 He will take care of us and no amount of “busy-ness” on our part can change that.\u00a0 The very discipline of being “still” (and it is a discipline by the way) is being able to step back and let God be God.\u00a0 It is acknowledging that “Lord, you got this”.<\/p>\n

So, today on the second Sabbath of our Lenten journey, “be still and know” that He is God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Be still and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10) How can one be “still” in a society like ours?\u00a0 Our life is so\u00a0full and there are things that compete with every minute.\u00a0\u00a0We are made to feel guilty when being … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lenten_blog_2015","category-all_posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}