We desire and we crave. Sometime we suffer an unbearable yearning for something that seems unattainable. We experience feelings of sadness, inadequacy, despair, and discouragement, in connection with our inability to satisfy our longings, or to understand the mystery of why we are unable to have our heart's desire.
Sometimes, despite our trust in God, we ache. We weep. We rage. We call out to a God who doesn't seem to hear us.
Or maybe we don't hear Him. We think God doesn't hear us? When do we listen to Him?
Psalm 46 tells us of a noisy, crashing, busy story of nations in uproar, kingdoms toppling, mountains falling into the heart of the sea, waters roaring and foaming, and mountains quaking with their surging. There is destruction and desolation, fire that burns, weapons that are shattered.
And yet -- yet, we are not to fear because in verse 10, the Psalmist writes, "Be still, and know that I am God."
Sometimes, in our desperate grasping for something, we lose our ability to listen to messages of comfort and joy that abound even in our anguish. We should leave it to God: He has a reason for everything and if I don't understand it, that doesn't mean it's not right.
Psalm 46 : 1 – 3, 6, 10
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts. Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
(0639 10VII2008)