“Be Still and know that I am God” Psalm 46:10

“Be Still and know that I am God”Psalm 46:10 

You know what's funny about this verse? Just like with almost every bible character, we tend to be called by God according to one verse that we cannot see ourselves relating to. I wish, for example, I could boast about being our dear Mary on Luke 10: 38-42, that could go quite close to that image on Psalm 46:10 but I’m not and yet He calls me out by it every single day of my life.

I was born on this earth as ‘plain, old, and stubborn like a mule Ruth’. My personality was always fast, speedy, a million miles per hour, always in a rush 'to please the Lord' with my doing, because that's what you do as a Christian, right?

What you're told a thousand times: the more you do, the more it shows to the world what an amazing Christian soul you're developing into. That can definitely give others to talk about all about you and your ‘functional religion stage’, But oh so little, my friends, would others dare to point out to the more important being in the universe, Him!

Until one day, Him, The All Mighty God hits you with a wall of His power and reality, all of the sudden there's nothing left of you and your previous and very legalistic misconceptions about Who He is and what you can do ‘to always stand on His good side’.

Let me further explain through our friend Job from the bible, now from the very beginning of his life this man was consider as the most righteous person on earth and yet we see a man who was far from being perfected to God’s perfect purpose, which was for Job to recognize that the Lord has the power over all life and does as it pleases Him ultimately for His Honor, Glory and giving you the amazing honor of using you as a wonderful Bessel that’s going to reach its most perfected stage once glorified at the majesty of His splendor and Glory.

Now, I’m not saying here that every case is the same and every person following Jesus will lose every material thing just like Job did to be sanctified and even if we do, believe me: Christ will always be worth it my friends.

I’m here to tell you that just the same way Jesus paid and took all of our pain and struggles upon His Godly shoulders, He did it with the purpose to give you something so much better than this temporary stage of despair and pain, for this too, shall pass my friends.

In my case, this process, this struggle, has not yet been diagnosed: an unknown autoimmune disease that has cause major health issues in my body for more than five years, and everyone (diagnosed or not yet), I bet can relate to the endless visits to the doctors, the constant change on the prednisone dosages and resources expend to tell by experts that they don’t know what it is but they’ll keep trying.

This is why I feel God has placed this desire to share with as many of you out there the amazing encoring words and support, even from afar from the gospel.

To tell you that we are not alone, He is with us, even in the worst of pain, in the solitude of the night or the quite of the hospitals, Jesus is there, embrace Him and learn to listen to His voice first and the rest will fall into place.

Like I said, this has not been magical, my life has not change with the snap of God’s fingers, this has been painful, slow, not to easy to deal with or cope, but God’s mercy and His love endures forever and He never walks out on His children.

This is just a brief introduction to my journey, please feel free just to let it all out, and don’t worry about ‘surprising me’ with your thoughts or feelings, after all I wasn’t born a Christian loving girl.

Love,

Ruth Indhira ‘His Daughter’