Be Still and Know that I am God

Psalms 46:10 I love this verse. I know that it is talking about how God will be exalted, but it is also a vese that seems to always come to mind during the times when I let myself get so busy doing what it seems to me to be the "Lord's work". But in reality I am just meeting myself coming...and I have lost focus in much of my life. "Be still and know that I am God" God wants me to make time to be still. Why is that such a foreign concept in this day and age? Why does it produce such feelings of guilt - taking time to stop all the activity in our lives and just be still and know that he is God? There are seasons in my life that are busy, but then there needs to be seasons of rest, seasons when I reatreat and listen to the sweet voice of God, times of refreshment, times of rejuinivation, times of hearing direction, even times of getting questions answered and times of correction. But that doesn't, can't happen going at the speed of light. Too many times I keep going at a breakneck pace doing what I have always been doing without stoping to ask if this is what I am still suppose to be doing. I am grateful I am connected to a body of believers who support the idea of evaluating the things you are involved in and making sure that is where God still is directing you to be and doing what what you are doing, and if not having and supporting the changes and adjustments you need to make.

I am feeling that I need to get off for a time of retreat, a time of just God and I, my Bible and a journal and just pray, write, and listen to God. Sometimes I battle with being so capable. It is so easy to just slip into my own strengtth and keep on going. My desire is to always take time to hear His voice. To make adjustments along the way. Why is it so hard for me? It is like when you are traveling with a man and he doesn't want to look at a map or ask for directions. Sometimes you realise that maybe you have missed a turn off somewhere, that you are generally going in the same direction you have been, but somehow you know that it isn't quite right anymore either. (Of course you would never use the "L" word - with him or with yourself) You may get to see a lot of scenery, you may even get to do some fantastic things, and quite possibly you might even get to your destination...but it may take a lot longer, a lot of backtracking, a lot of anxiety over being lost too. Life is too short to have to take unnecessary detours. I have had my share of detours. I am ready to see and hear what it is God wants for the 2nd half centry of my life. No more, no less.