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Readings: Exodus 17:1-7; Psalm 46; Romans 5:1-11; John 4:5-42
- It all starts and ends in knowing that He is God!
- Knowing about God…+knowing by relationship. Know about God only gets us so far. It is in a relationship that a deep trust is formed.
- Fear does not need to dominate our lives or our emotions.
- It is hard to be at peace, to be still, when we are playing God.
- Even when nature goes crazy…. (Ps 46:2-3)
- Even when nations go crazy…. (Ps 46:6)
- God over creation and the nations.
- Being still is not a lack of activity. It is peace no matter what is going on.
- Circumstances do not change God.
- He is the Lord over creations and the Lord over the affairs of man!
- When we have our hope placed in God we can learn to be still.
- We can be nourished with the living whether, the same that he offered to the Samaritan woman in John 4:13-14.
- Nourished by God’s love that “has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.” (Romans 5:5) God is always present with us.
- In what, or who do we place our hope? Do we place our hope in medicine, in our success, in our abilities, in our spouses, in our children…?
- Practicing living our lives being still and know that He is God in the little things will help prepare us for whatever big events, like mentioned in this Psalm, that we may face.