{"query": "The Stillness Is the Instruction", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_ea5725d67984", "title": "The Stillness Is the Instruction", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Be still, and know that I am God.\"\n\nThe command is strange by any practical measure. When the world presses in — when noise accumulates and demands multiply — the expected counsel is to act faster, p"}, {"id": "card_n_8b8bf6ae4ebb", "title": "What the Quiet Reveals", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Be still, and know that I am God.\"\n\nThere is a difference between silence and stillness. Silence is simply the absence of noise. Stillness, as the psalm commands it, is the active settling of a restl"}, {"id": "card_n_3df9cadb44a4", "title": "The Knowledge That Stillness Opens", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Be still, and know that I am God.\"\n\nSaturdays carry a peculiar pull — errands accumulate, the week's unfinished business presses in, and the mind races toward tomorrow before today has properly arriv"}, {"id": "card_n_a44b6bc5aade", "title": "The Knowing That Comes Through Stillness", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Be still, and know that I am God.\"\n\nThere is a particular kind of knowing that cannot be forced or studied into existence. The psalmist does not say \"work harder and know\" or \"speak more and know.\" H"}, {"id": "card_n_74dba7c005f7", "title": "The Direction Changes Everything", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find.\" — John 21:6\n\nThe disciples had fished through the entire night and caught nothing. Their arms were tired. Their method was sound. Their"}, {"id": "card_n_1b387b23edd7", "title": "The Rich Young Ruler", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Approaches eagerly with the right question; loved by Christ; given the one specific instruction that touches the actual hold on him; walks away sorrowful.\n\nFailure mode: Asking the right question but "}, {"id": "card_n_fd0e95c4fa83", "title": "The Net Is Not the Problem", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find.\"\n\nThe disciples had fished all night and caught nothing. They were not lazy. They were not faithless. They were working. The net went in"}, {"id": "card_n_38199a4eed49", "title": "One Small Adjustment", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find.\"\n\nThe disciples had worked through the night and caught nothing. They were not lazy. They were not faithless. They were simply fishing f"}, {"id": "card_n_1670095015e5", "title": "Easton: Light", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The offspring of the divine command (Gen. 1:3). “All the more joyous emotions of the mind, all the pleasing sensations of the frame, all the happy hours of domestic intercourse were habitually describ"}, {"id": "card_n_c28ffe4f030e", "title": "Ephesians 6", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.\n2. “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:\n3. “that it may be well with you, and you may live long"}, {"id": "card_n_8b16e5186f33", "title": "The Same Water, A Different Cast", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find.\"\n\nThe disciples had fished all night and caught nothing. The water was the same water. The boat was the same boat. Their hands were the "}, {"id": "card_n_03e12108137b", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_03_14: He used to say: Beloved is man for he was created in the image [of God].", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He used to say: Beloved is man for he was created in the image [of God]. Especially beloved is he for it was made known to him that he had been created in the image [of God], as it is said: “for in th"}, {"id": "card_n_0ef59894726c", "title": "Devotional: The One Door", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Stillness before God allows us to hear His voice. Jesus is the only way, the only door, and His sacrifice alone makes us right with the Father.\n\nWhen we recognize this, our trust deepens. We live as l"}, {"id": "card_n_8d483e664d1c", "title": "The Same Water, A Different Obedience", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find.\"\n\nThe disciples had fished all night. Not lazily — with genuine effort, real rope, real exhaustion. The water was the same water. The bo"}, {"id": "card_n_131ad39bed0f", "title": "Proverbs 1:7", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction."}, {"id": "card_n_92a3bf533367", "title": "The Difference One Direction Makes", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find.\"\n\nThe disciples had fished all night and caught nothing. Then a figure on the shore called out a single, quiet instruction: try the othe"}, {"id": "card_n_8d305eaf79f5", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §334: CHR.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "CHR. Then said Christian to Hopeful his fellow, Is it true which this man hath said? Hopeful's gracious answer Hope. Take heed, he is one of the flatterers; remember what it hath cost us once already "}, {"id": "card_n_440d163fbef0", "title": "The Same Hands, A Different Side", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find.\"\n\nThey had fished all night and caught nothing. Not because they lacked skill — these were working fishermen, men who knew nets and wate"}, {"id": "card_n_8fa579adfa24", "title": "Easton: Abel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. Hebhel), a breath, or vanity, the second son of Adam and Eve. He was put to death by his brother Cain (Gen. 4:1-16). Guided by the instruction of their father, the two brothers were trained in t"}, {"id": "card_n_c84135483b63", "title": "Easton: Parable", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. parabole), a placing beside; a comparison; equivalent to the Heb. mashal, a similitude. 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