Grace Calls Us to Be — Not to Do
Part 6: Grace isn’t asking you to do more, but to simply be.
What does it mean to be still?
Pause and let the question sink in. In a culture that prizes doing, being still can feel counterintuitive — even uncomfortable. Yet this is precisely where grace meets us.
“Be still and know that I am God.” — Psalm 46:10
To be still is to surrender the need to control, to achieve, to perform — and simply allow your mind to rest. It is to silence the anxious urge to do something. In this quiet space, you realize that your power lies in your capacity to receive. You begin to see that you are not defined by your actions, your productivity, or your struggles.
Constantly returning to this state of rest teaches your body that it is safe to receive — that you do not need to remain in a constant state of high alert to survive or create. In this state, your creative power flows more freely, without strain or resistance.
It is God working through you. When you cooperate and commit to this way of being, you express Him.
Life unfolds most fully when we stop striving because when we are at rest we make space for grace to flow. When we stop trying to control everything, we create space for something greater than our limited human perspective to emerge.
So, what does it mean to simply be?
It is the difference between suffering and freedom. It is the realisation that you are whole, complete, and enough as you are — that there is nothing to achieve and nothing to prove.
To simply be is to stop trying to become, to achieve, or to fit an idea of who you think you should be — and instead rest in who you are when you no longer identify with your physical circumstances.
When you identify with your circumstances, you limit yourself, though you were created to be limitless.
In a nutshell, to simply be is to stop identifying with what you are not — your struggles or challenges, your achievements, your status, even your religion. These are all labels, part of the ever-changing content of life.
But you are not the content — you are the context in which it all unfolds.
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