"Gnothi Seauton"

"Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." (Psalms 46:10) Part of understanding involves "knowing thyself", which basically means, knowing our own limitations. We may not be able to figure out a lot of things about God, but we can surely understand why we need Him so much; based upon our track-record of being righteous, we fall so short of holiness. But you see, that's the Good News of the Gospel! That is why the Gospel Message is such Good News! We are broken and weak, and God knows that far better than we know it ourselves; which is precisely why we needed a Saviour, and why God sent His Son to die upon the cross for us. We have no strength within ourselves to be righteous, and we especially have no strength to save ourselves; only God can save us from ourselves, and He has! Looking at the meaning of "Be still", I get the feeling that we fail to really understand what God is trying to tell us to do; mostly because we tend to think it means what our parents told us to do in church when we were squirming in the pews; but it actually speaks of putting our arms down, as if so stop fighting. It would best be described as surrender, if that is how you want to look at it; but more than that, we don't just surrender because we give up fighting, we surrender because we want to win. That is key! Oh how we need to want His righteousness! It's not just that we must surrender to His will for our lives, we need to dismiss our own will and want His will for our lives. That is the only way we are going to win, is by coming over to God's side of the fight; then not only do we win, but we have already won. Which brings me to my next point, that being how God has been exalted, which means 'lifted up'... "For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commanded His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:6-8)