Word Study Wednesday

[Psa 46:10a KJV] 10 Be still, and know that I [am] God:

Do we even know what it means to be "still" anymore?  In today's hustle, bustle world constantly rushing around, 100% entertainment all the time and hardly a second to breathe, it seems quiet time with God gets shoved aside at times.

This should not be.  He should be top priority.  So how do we practice stillness, before Him?

The Hebrew word is רָפָה râphâh, raw-faw'; a primitive root; to slacken (in many applications, literal or figurative):—abate, cease, consume, draw (toward evening), fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble, forsake, idle, leave, let alone (go, down), (be) slack, stay, be still, be slothful, (be) weak(-en). 

I find the first word interesting:  to slacken, which means to loosen.  Let loose of some of our busyness.  The world isn't going to end if we don't accomplish everything on our daily to do lists.

I suspect that we are all busier than we need to be.  So let's do one less kid activity, let's let one call go to voicemail, let's skip one worthless activity that has no eternal value and spend some time being still so we can hear what God has to say to us today.