Good Morning Garden

Read Psalm 46.
Among all the beautiful and heart-searching prayers of the Bible there is none that surpasses the wonderful poem that we call the Forty Sixth Psalm.

It begins, as do nearly all the Bible prayers, with an expression of faith in God. This is extremely important in practice. You need to affirm constantly that you do believe in God, not merely as a vague abstract concept, but as a real, vivid, actual power in life, always available to be contacted in thought; never changing and never failing. The Psalm closes with a command and an affirmation.

Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. This is really the whole Bible in a nutshell. Be still, and know that I am God. This is the very last thing that we want to do when we are worried or anxious. The current of human thought is always hurrying us along to its own ends, and it seems much easier to swim with it by accepting difficulties, than to draw resolutely away from these things, and contemplate God, which is the one way out of trouble. Even in your prayers there is a time to cease active work and, “having done all, to stand” – to be still, and know that I am God.

How seldom we, as modern people, experience stillness. Yet, it is in those quiet times when we can truly know that God is. Amid all the overstimulation, hurrying about and meeting deadlines, God waits in the stillness for us. As we think, act and respond to the world we perceive, God waits in the quiet cool of the Garden he gave us. In the most frantic rush hour or lying sleepless in the dead of night, God awaits us in our refuge and stronghold. Prayer time, meditation or just sitting quietly in contemplation of God’s presence, power and peace, are all good ways to be still. Each day, let us make time to be still and know that God is.

Still, in the Garden,

Z gardener