BE STILL - All Our Daily Bread Daily Devotionals for 2026

Our Daily Bread - Tuesday, November 3, 2015
by RBC Ministries

Details

BE STILL

READ:
Psalm 46

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Psalm 46:10

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Jeremiah 30-31
Philemon

Eric Liddell, memorialised in the film, Chariots of Fire, won a gold medal in the 1924 Paris Olympics before going to China as a missionary. Some years later, with the outbreak of World War II, Liddell sent his family to safety in Canada but remained in China. Soon, Liddell and other foreign missionaries were interned in a Japanese detainment camp. After months of captivity, he developed what doctors feared was a brain tumour.
Every Sunday afternoon, a band would play near the hospital. So one day, Liddell requested they play the hymn "Be still my soul". As he listened, I wonder if Eric pondered these words from the song: Be still my soul: the hour is hastening on/When we shall be foreign with the Lord/When disappointment, grief and fear are gone/Sorrow forgotten, love's purest joys restored/Be still, my soul: when change and tears are past/All safe and blessed we shall meet at last.
The beautiful hymn, so comforting to Eric as he faced an illness that led to his death 3 days later, expresses a great reality of scripture. In Psalm 46:10, David wrote, "Be still and know that I am God". In our darkest moments, we can rest for our Lord conquered death on our behalf. Be still and allow Him to calm your greatest fears. - Bill Crowder
Teach me Lord to still my soul before you,
Help me to bear patiently the trials I face,
And to leave everything to you to direct and provide,
I know that you will always remain faithful

God's whisper of comfort quiets the noise of our trials.

More From Our Daily Devotional Archives

To you is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God;

The LORD is near
for Saturday, December 7, 2013
by Jacob Redekop, Brian Reynolds, John van Dijk, Eugene P. Vedder Jr

To you is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God;

(Mark 4:11)

The Lord Jesus told His disciples that they would be given an understanding in "the mystery of the kingdom of God." He also spoke of another class of people to whom everything would be spoken in parables; these He described as, "them who are without." How solemn that God should...More

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

The LORD is near
for Friday, December 20, 2013
by Jacob Redekop, Brian Reynolds, John van Dijk, Eugene P. Vedder Jr

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
(Galatians 6:1-2)

The verse above enjoins spiritual ones...More

Daily Scripture Reading
for Wednesday, August 26, 2015
by STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT (SCM) OF NIGERIA & WORLD STUDENT CHRISTIAN FEDERATION (WSCF) AFRICA REGION

JOSEPH KILLED BY AN EVIL BEAST?

...More