Being Still and Knowing the Lord

WORD 2day - Monday, 16th week in Ordiary time

July 24, 2023: Exodus 14: 5-18; Matthew 12: 38-42

The people ask for a sign and on this count people have never changed or grown for the better in history. Asking for a sign or clamoring after magics, being obsessed with persons who claim to have the ability to perform extraordinary signs, predictions and healings... these are prevalent even today. The answer from the Lord is very simple and straightforward.

All that you need to do is, be still. The tendency to run after signs and frenetically looking for miracles should cease if we really keep growing in our faith maturity. Tear shedding statues and blood oozing artefacts cannot be the kindling factors of our faith; if only we could be still and see the works of God in our lives, if only we could be still and observe the way the Lord accompanies us on a daily basis, in the ordinariness of our daily life, we would be filled with messages and revelations enough to fill our thoughts and increase our faith.

What do you think is the most important factor in life - knowing in advance what is going to happen, or knowing how to respond to a situation when it actually comes; trying to look for miracles here or there or learning to recongnise and acknowledge the miracle that is to be discovered in the daily events of our lives? 

All I need to do today, and everyday, is Be Still... and know that the Lord is with me.