Just stopping and being

'Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:

"I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit,

who leads you in the way you should go."'

Isaiah 48.17

Sometimes all we need to do is to stop and think about who God is. We can spend so long thinking about who we are, about what we should be doing, about how everything in our life fits together, about all the problems and difficulties we have, about where we want our future to go . . . and so little time just stopping and thinking about who God is. Just stopping and spending time gazing up at him. Just stopping and being with him. That's why we worry, why we panic, why we stress, why we become overwhelmed, why we lose hope. Put another way, that's why we sin. It is a small view of who God is that leads us to treat him in a way that is less than deserving. We need to spend time looking at him so that when problems come we see the solution. When difficulties arise we know the way through. When all hope is lost all hope is found.

What is it we see when we look at him? We see the one who bought us out of self inflicted slavery. The one who stands apart alone as worthy of all honour. The one who teaches us his way that we might walk in it and know true greatness. We see more than enough to get us through every hardship, every trial, every temptation. We see our God.