Be Still And Know

1 Peter 5:7-8 NLT    'Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you. Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.'   As a young man I was all emotion; reactive, angry and self-conscious. My encounter with God was so very real the memory clings to me still, redolent with the great joy I experienced upon first bowing the knee to Jesus. While the bending of my physical frame proved easy, it took time before I recognised that my will rigidly resisted acknowledging a new landlord. Here was the initial ground of my battle with God and self.    What worries did a young overachieving man face in the 1970s? Especially one who entered the University of Oxford and inhaled its heady atmosphere of self-confidence? There was much growing up to do. Slowly God chipped away at the granite that enfolded my heart.     While God wooed me, the enemy sought to intimidate me, and I often cowered when confronted with the real me. Yet, des