‘Step Out Of The Traffic!’

‘Step out of the traffic!’ 

Take off your watches!  Shove back from your  computers! Step back from your lists and your schedules!  ‘Be quiet in this moment and Know that God is here!’

Know that God is just waiting to be called upon, to be invited into your busy mind waiting to help sort out the messes, to help gentle the noise.  God is just waiting to be recognized as all powerful. A God who is very able and willing to help and guide and equip us for anything we are asked to handle.  God is more than willing to simply sit with us and be quiet with us in the moment as a caring friend would do.

The Psalmist suggests that we take time in our day to know this God. To sit with him a moment and ‘just be’ and to listen to the things he has to tell us.

The Psalmist is very wise!

1 God is a safe place to hide, ready to help when we need him. 2 We stand fearless at the cliff-edge of doom, courageous in seastorm and earthquake, 3 Before the rush and roar of oceans, the tremors that shift mountains. Jacob-wrestling God fights for us, God of angel armies protects us. 4 River fountains splash joy, cooling God's city, this sacred haunt of the Most High. 5 God lives here, the streets are safe, God at your service from crack of dawn. 6 Godless nations rant and rave, kings and kingdoms threaten, but Earth does anything he says. 7 Jacob-wrestling God fights for us, God of angel armies protects us. 8 Attention, all! See the marvels of God! He plants flowers and trees all over the earth, 9 Bans war from pole to pole, breaks all the weapons across his knee. 10 "Step out of the traffic! Take a long, loving look at me, your High God, above politics, above everything." 11 Jacob-wrestling God fights for us, God of angel armies protects us.

(Psalm 46 The Message)