My word tells you to be still and know that I am God. This implies that there is a connection between stillness and knowing. Is this how you know other things? A diligent search for knowledge implies proactive involvement. You have many resources available to you for all the facts in the world. Yet knowing me is different. This is a journey in which you make greater progress by slowing down and calming down. The world and its distractions and your own racing thoughts are too prominent in your awareness. If you want to know the author of life, release those things and I will come to you. 

Do you love books? The written word has provided a very effective communication method for all of recorded history. In essence it connects a reader with an author. How do you regard the Bible? Is it an illustration of this principle too, or is it in a special category and exempt from this rule? In other words, is it possible to know the Bible without knowing the author of the Bible? If so this is not a desirable situation. I dealt with the same thing in my ministry on earth. The Pharisees knew the scriptures that testified of me but they didn’t recognize me when I was present with them. These things were written that you may believe and know the one the Father sent. 

I told a parable about talents in which different servants got different amounts to invest while their master was away. You understand this story was given to illustrate a larger principle. For you see the people around you and some are smarter, taller, more attractive and overall more capable than others. This seeming disparity is partly due to the fact that your culture values some talents more than others, but the differences still remain. It may be helpful to you in understanding this story to know that even one talent was an enormous amount of money. Even the least of these have more than enough to fulfill their destiny. leaving town for a few days.

In the parable of the workers in the vineyard, the workers who showed up just before quitting time were paid the same as those who worked all day. Do you understand that this really isn’t a story about labor and wage practices? Some people spend a lifetime walking with me before passing beyond, and others squeak in under the wire. Are these to be envied by the others? Don’t you breathe a sigh of relief when you hear of such an event? The issue here is the perceived value of serving me. If you really understand it you won’t resent it but will be glad you worked all day.