Be Still And Know

2 Chronicles 9:7-8 NLT   'How happy your people must be! What a privilege for your officials to stand here day after day, listening to your wisdom! Praise the Lord your God, who delights in you...'   The search for happiness has been important for thousands of years. The queen of Sheba travelled from her home to visit Solomon, because of his famed wisdom, which she observed produced ‘happiness’ among his subjects. I have also travelled widely, extensively and studied to PhD level. I love seeking to discover truth and have an insatiable appetite to understand how I tick and how I might realise my greatest potential. After many adventures in self-discovery, I find myself today content simply to acknowledge that I know God. I spend large amounts of time very happily on my own. But, in reality, I’m not alone. I meet God within all the daily routines of my existence. And where I fail to do so, it is merely that I’ve taken my eye off the Lord.   Paul declares: “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain” (Phil