It is said that Filipinos once called watches the little gods that people carry on their wrists. They are not far off the mark. Sometime our lives may be so dictated by this little god that incessantly counts the minutes, that we cannot find time to spend with a friend, or to play a game, or to go for a walk, or to tell a story to a child. The LORD speaks through the psalmist:
“Be still, and know that I am God… I will be exalted in the earth” (Psa 46:10).
And His Son, in the midst of a violent storm, rebuked the winds and said to the waves, “Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm (Mark 4:39). We must periodically cease from our business — or our ‘busy-ness’ — to realize what is merely pressing, and what is truly important. What are we chasing so urgently, that we cannot take a deep breath, or ten, look around and look up, and see the evidence of eternal truths all around us? “Be still. Realize that I am God.”
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One