Cease Striving…

“Cease striving and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Psalm 46:10

Over the past few months I have been striving;  what should I be doing?  What should my goals be?  How can I serve God?  How can I recover from the mess that I got into a year ago?  I, I, I, I.

In the Amplified Bible this verse is translated “Let be, and be still and know…”  It reminds me of Chinese finger cuffs.  Once you are in them the more that you struggle the more stuck you become, when you relax and stop pulling then you can get them off.  That is kind of the idea expressed here. 

The word “know” is number 3045 in Strong's. יָדַע yāḏaʿ: A verb meaning to know, to learn, to perceive, to discern, to experience, to confess, to consider, to know people relationally, to know how, to be skillful, to be made known, to make oneself known, to make to know.
(Baker, W. (2003). The complete word study dictionary : Old Testament (420). Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers.)

This is the word used to describe the intimacy between Adam and Eve before the birth of a child. 

God wants to be known.  He has shown Himself, we only have to look.  When we get to know God then everything else will fall into place.  When we know God then we will see and understand His exaltation.