In Tyler Staton’s book, Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools, he explains the Psalm: “Be still and know that I am God.”
Both of those components are critical and also, of course, inseparable.
Staton writes of the phrase “Be still.”
“The Latin term is vacate, from which we get the English word vacation. The invitation of prayer anytime, anywhere is this: Take a vacation.
Stop playing God over your own life for a moment. Release control. Return to the created order.
Be still. Prayer begins there. But that’s only the beginning.
…. Many confuse stillness with waiting for revelation. Sometimes revelation does come, and it’s marvelous.
But that’s not the purpose of stillness.
The purpose is consent.
It is the daily practice of consenting to the work of God’s Spirit… practice silence as a sacrificial offering to God. It’s that simple.
It’s about giving something of yourself to God, not getting something from God.“
