{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Daily Psalms - Classical Psalms Every Day","title":"Psalm Chapter 46","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":105,"description":"Psalm 46: The Stillness at the Center of the StormThere is a kind of courage that holds its ground, and there is a deeper kind that sits down. \"Be still, and know that I am God\" is not advice for a quiet morning — it is a command issued in the middle of a world coming apart. The earth is being removed. The mountains are sliding into the sea. The waters are roaring. The nations are raging. And into this pandemonium, God speaks not a battle cry but an invitation to stillness. It is as if the Almighty were saying: the thing you are most tempted to do right now — panic, strategize, fight — is precisely the thing I am asking you not to do. Instead, know. Not know about Me, but know Me. The psalm begins where all real faith begins: not with what we must do for God, but with what God already is. \"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.\" Not a distant help, not an eventual help, but a very present one — as near as your own breathing. And flowing through the chaos, almost unnoticed, there is a river whose streams make glad the city of God. In the loudest storm, the quietest water.00:00 Our Refuge and Strength01:00 Be Still and Know","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/C2WseAXS5mwLSdrov_M_2jK4yq73Ie3qsXM5YHymD9c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYTI4/MzVhZWJjYTI1MDMy/ODg4MTI5NzlhMDg5/NmY2ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}