Psalm 46:10 “Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.”
For us to properly serve God we must live and walk in
Truth, the truth of His word. We must walk in the Spirit, (Gal. 5:16) and in
doing so we will not in any way fulfill the lust of our old nature to disobey
God. God told us here to “Be still…” Albert Barnes defined this phrase
like this, “It is also employed in the sense of not making an effort; not
putting forth exertion; and then would express the idea of leaving matters with
God, or of being without anxiety about the issue.” In Ex. 14:13 God told
Moses, “And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and
see the salvation of the LORD…” If we obey the Lord and “stand still” then
in God’s own time we will see the hand of God dealing with the issue. We need
to remember what prayer is for and exercise our chain of communication to our Heavenly
Father, then stand still and trust Him. Then the Lord tells us, “and know
that I am God.” The word “to know” is for us to know, to understand, to
remember, to trust, that He is God, and it is in His hand and power. The
Psalmist David wrote in Psalms 46:8 “Come, behold the works of the LORD,
what desolations he hath made in the earth.” The word “desolations” is
defined “ruin or waste” which is to be understood that the ruin or waste of our
land or of the earth is God’s workings and not “bad luck or something caused by
another source.” God is not only to be praised for the good but also for the desolations
on the earth. God has many reasons and purposes for the ruin He causes, and one
reason is to get the attention of the heathen. As Christians we are not to buy
into the excuses of the world but in everything as the power and work of God,
even in disasters. People who do not know God are excusable from seeing God’s
hand in things, but we who know God thru Jesus Christ are without excuse if we
use the reasoning of the heathen to explain why something happens. We must
exalt God in all things “I will be exalted among the heathen.” The heathen
must understand that God delivers these desolations to make the world
understand their error. People who believe that God is not behind these events
do not know the Omniscient and Omnipotent God we know. So, some might ask, “why
would God cause such desolations on the earth, and God answered that question, “I
will be exalted in the earth..” God is saying, “I will make myself glorious
by my great and wonderful works.” The heathen need to understand that their
sinful ways are and abomination to God. Sin is not ok; it is ok to disobey God.
People want to believe these heathiest preachers that “God is love” and that “God
loves everyone” and that “God wants nothing but the best for us.” God is a God
of judgment, Moses wrote “He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his
ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.”
Deuteronomy 32:4 God destroyed this earth with a flood and killed every living
soul except eight, why, “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in
the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only
evil continually.” Genesis 6:5 Noah stood still, he did as God commanded, he built
a ship on dry land, he knew it was God and he exalted God for the desolation
that He brought. God was also exalted with the desolation of Sodom and Gomorrah
“But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.”
Genesis 13:13 God has not changed, as Christians we know the plan of God, we
know the world is heading to many more desolations because of their evilness.
God is not the bad here, He is a God that all His ways are judgment, and He is
judging this world through desolations just as He has since creation. The desolations
of this world, all of them have meaning, they are God’s work and His judgments,
we are to be still and praise God in them. God will be exalted by His people
and someday by the very people He delivered these judgments too. “…As
I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall
confess to God.” Rom. 14:11. Therefore, when these things happen, know that He
is God and that these things are His judgments!
