From the Home Place

December 17, 2025

I know that I have mentioned today’s topic before, but some things bare repeating, especially when those things are the truth of God.

In Psalm 46:10 we read, “Cease striving and know that I am God;” I know that I, and most likely we often make things more difficult than they need to be. The first time this phrase appears in the Bible is when the nation of Israel had just crossed the Red Sea and Pharoh’s army was closing in on them. Panicked, Moses askes what “he should do,” when God tells Him to “stand by and know that I am God.”

Most often we want to understand the “cease striving” of Psalm 46:20 as being still, in a prayerful attitude, waiting for God to reveal His truth to us. Although this may be a great practice, it is not at all what this Psalm is teaching. Our Heavenly Father is really telling us something like this, “After you have prayed, after you have waited upon Me, “cease striving!” God is saying, there comes a time for you to quit trying to do something. He wants us to do nothing but to watch Him do what only He can do.

In spite of our American technology, and even beyond AI, there is GOD! Sometimes we need to stop trying to do that which only He can do. There comes a time in every trying situation when God wants us to just stand by and watch Him do His part. Sound familiar? “Watch and see.” There is a time to pray, there is a time to take action, there is a time to gather the troops to help, but there is also a time to quietly wait for God to be GOD!

Yep, I know, you are asking, “So when do I know when that time arrives?” Perhaps when you have done all that you can do, quit worrying, quit trying to find something new or different to do, and just let Him work – “watch and see.”

I often marvel how God used non-Christian parents and friends to begin teaching me His principals and methods. As I often declare, “What an awesome God we serve!”

Letting God be GOD with you, Neal