I have been holding on to Psalm 46:10 since last September.
And today, I read in Nehemiah 8:11 those same words, “Be still.” At a time when
the Israelites were filled with grief and regret over their sins and failures,
the Levites calmed them and spoke grace to them. At a time when their failure
was weighing heavy on their hearts, dragging them down emotionally, the Levites
encouraged them to celebrate and rejoice in God’s goodness.
This speaks to me because I struggle with the what-ifs.
Sometimes the grief and burden of past failures weigh me down and keep me from
being who God wants me to be. There is a time for mourning and grieving and
confessing. But today is not that day. I have mourned. I have grieved. I have
confessed. So today I pick myself up, dust myself off and I
