Be Still And Know

Psalm 89.8 NLT 'O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies! Where is there anyone as mighty as you, O Lord? You are entirely faithful.' Faithfulness is a wonderful word. To find someone who is absolutely trustworthy and dependable is an incredible blessing and the psalmist is convinced that God is exactly that. He looks into the heavens and reflects on the awesomeness of creation and concludes that God is entirely faithful, unlike anyone else. This is the time of the year when I seem to have a string of insurance renewals. I like the security that insurance gives and am more than happy to pay up. But we only need insurance because we live in a world where there is so much uncertainty. Things break and people let us down and we need to have the cushion of insurance to keep life going. But when we look to God we need to take out no insurance against the possibility that he might let us down. We can lean with all our weight on him, knowing that he will never fail us. I love Deuteronomy 33.26-27 where Moses, like the psal