Resting

Hannah Whitall Smith writes about Lake Tahoe: “Among the peaks of the Sierra Nevada mountains, not far from the busy whirl of San Francisco, lies Lake Tahoe. It is twenty-three miles long, ten miles wide, and so deep that a line dropped nineteen hundred feet does not touch bottom; and it lies five thousand feet above the neighboring ocean. Storms come and go in waters that are lower down the mountains, but this lake is so still and clear that the eye can penetrate, it is said, a hundred feet into its depths. Around its mild verdant sides are the mountains, ever crowned with snow. The sky above is as calm as the motionless water. Nature loses scarcely anything of its clear outline as it is reflected there.”

My, we have trouble being still?  My mind outruns my spirit quite often!  It is not uncommon for the pressures and endless tasks of each day to bully our own good nature.  We can all use a time of cease and desist!  Psalm 46:10 says, “be still and know that I am God,” calling us to cease the sin which hinders our knowing God intimately.  When we do … stop, that is … we can experience the calmness of His spirit and thus become a deep and lovely reflection of Christ’s beauty.  Oh, how the world needs to see it in us – the Savior’s peacefulness.  Be still.  Know God.  Rest.

Have a blessed weekend.  Miles of Smiles, Beverly