Be still

"Be still, and know that I am God"  Psalms 46:10(a)

God has really laid this Bible verse on my heart for some reason this year.  We've all heard this Bible verse at one time or another, but God has been bringing this verse to my mind every day.  As a matter of fact, I sang a song in church the other night that talked about being still.

As parents we know the effectiveness of our voice.  Many times a child can be "brought back to earth" by our loud, stern voice but many times the quiet, calm voice gets the most attention.  Our children hear us fuss and raise our voice all of the time; however, when we get quiet, that is when we really get our child's attention.

In the life of a single parent, there is not many quiet times.  Sometimes the most "quiet time" we get is at work!  But we need to set time aside for us to get alone with God.  I'm not talking about getting alone with your TV, or getting alone with a child waiting at the door, I mean getting alone with God in a place where no one is going to bother you for a few minutes and just let God talk to you.  Sometimes we handle our time alone with God like we handle filling our car up with gas... we zoom into our "devotional space", read our Bible to fill us up, and then zoom right back out into our life.  But in that time, we do not allow God to really speak to us.

Let's determine to set aside time to be still and listen to God and let's also determine to teach our children how to have that quiet time with God so that they can begin to learn to listen to God's still, small voice.

BE STILL and have a great day!