“Be still, and know that I am God.” —Psalm 46:10 ESV
It was late. I was stressed. Anxious. Mentally sprinting through an endless list of things I didn’t get done that day. So to avoid looking and feeling, I broke the cardinal rule of anxious insomniacs: I opened my laptop.
I knew I should have just gone to bed. But then I saw this video tucked into an email from a friend. The song takes off in a Monday morning frenzy until, as if flipping a switch, Jonny Diaz sings:
Breathe, just breathe.
Come and rest at My feet.
And be, just be.
Chaos calls, but all you really need
Is to just breathe.1
In my stress and anxiousness, in my trying to do it all in my own strength, the song jumped out as a powerful, sweeping reminder that I am physically, mentally, and spiritually dependent on the Lord God for every single thing—right down to the most basic function of being alive—the need to breathe.
1 Jonny Diaz, “Breathe,” on Breathe (single), Jonny Diaz, 2016, Spotify, digital.
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“Breath and Dependence” (Laura Elliott, ReviveOurHearts.com/blog)
Scripture taken from The ESV
Make it Personal
Where are you striving instead of being still before God? How could you pause to remember your moment-by-moment dependence on Him?