Relax – He’s God! Pt2
“Be still, and know that I am God!” (Ps 46:10 NIV)
Yesterday we began unpacking this verse and today we will continue.
Know
There is a difference between ‘knowing’ something and ‘knowing’ something.
How can I explain this?
Not too long ago a friend of mine went on holiday to Toronto. She is a daring character and loved the idea of going up to the top of the CN tower. At the top they have what they call an ‘observation platform’ it is a thick plate of glass set into the floor so that if you stood on it you would feel as though you had stepped off the building and was now flying. I do not have a head for heights and so just writing about this is making me feel queasy but my friend has no such problems. She confidently walked up to the glass and put her foot out. She was surprised to find that she could not put it down on the glass; there was something inside her that thought her life would be in danger if she did. She knew that the glass was ridiculously thick and that she’d never fall through it but her body would not let her consciously walk out on it.
In the end she had to stand with her back to the glass, look up in the air and then begin walking backwards. Once she had taken five or so steps she looked down and it was the most amazing view she had ever seen. Try it out for yourself some time :o)
She ‘knew’ that the glass would hold her but her body [or subconscious] did not ‘know’ for sure that it would. Sometimes this sort of thing disables our relationship with God. We ‘know’ all about God, that He will never let us down, but we struggle to ‘know’ it and so we don’t step out in trust; staying in our safe little religious pigeon-hole.
No matter how we do it, we must remind ourselves just who God really is:
He’s our Father.
He loves us.
He created all and is in all.
He died for us.
He forgives us.
He blesses us unreservedly.
He is utterly amazing.
We need to know this, because when we do it will influence how we live. Knowing means believing; believing means trusting; trusting often means waiting.
“Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things we hope for, being the proof of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].” (Heb 11:1 AMP)
Yesterday we began unpacking this verse and today we will continue.
Know
There is a difference between ‘knowing’ something and ‘knowing’ something.
How can I explain this?
Not too long ago a friend of mine went on holiday to Toronto. She is a daring character and loved the idea of going up to the top of the CN tower. At the top they have what they call an ‘observation platform’ it is a thick plate of glass set into the floor so that if you stood on it you would feel as though you had stepped off the building and was now flying. I do not have a head for heights and so just writing about this is making me feel queasy but my friend has no such problems. She confidently walked up to the glass and put her foot out. She was surprised to find that she could not put it down on the glass; there was something inside her that thought her life would be in danger if she did. She knew that the glass was ridiculously thick and that she’d never fall through it but her body would not let her consciously walk out on it.In the end she had to stand with her back to the glass, look up in the air and then begin walking backwards. Once she had taken five or so steps she looked down and it was the most amazing view she had ever seen. Try it out for yourself some time :o)
She ‘knew’ that the glass would hold her but her body [or subconscious] did not ‘know’ for sure that it would. Sometimes this sort of thing disables our relationship with God. We ‘know’ all about God, that He will never let us down, but we struggle to ‘know’ it and so we don’t step out in trust; staying in our safe little religious pigeon-hole.
No matter how we do it, we must remind ourselves just who God really is:
He’s our Father.
He loves us.
He created all and is in all.
He died for us.
He forgives us.
He blesses us unreservedly.
He is utterly amazing.
We need to know this, because when we do it will influence how we live. Knowing means believing; believing means trusting; trusting often means waiting.
“Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things we hope for, being the proof of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].” (Heb 11:1 AMP)
- Lois Bennett (& Andrew Carey)
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