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Selah is a mysterious and beautiful word found throughout the Psalms and the book of Habakkuk. Though we don’t know its exact meaning, the common understanding is that it signifies a pause, an interlude, or a moment of stillness. If you’ve heard a passage of Scripture read publicly that includes this word, the reader likely didn’t say “selah” but rather quite literally paused for a moment to honor this instruction.
Summer is in full swing with its warm days, cookouts, and of course pool days. For many of us, summer can be full of movement and noise whether because of travel, commitments, the many people in our home, or seasonal activities. If we have the right eyes to see it, summer can also be full of opportunities to selah. To know and be known by God right in the middle of our messy and ordinary lives.
Perhaps you began with good intentions at the beginning of summer to refresh your quiet time, practice solitude, or rekindle family discipleship practices. If for some reason, whether it was inside or outside of your control, you find your soul or home in need of a reset spiritually or otherwise, I want to encourage you that there is still plenty left of the season to be renewed! The enemy would love to discourage you from beginning afresh.
Our good and gracious God is making all things new! He does it through great acts and beautiful rhythms, but he also does it through fresh starts and small moments of turning our hearts toward him. My encouragement for you is to commit to one moment that makes sense for your life and season with the Lord and you guessed it, stop, pause, and breathe: “selah” your summer self into the grace of being held by God.
His glory is all around us, may we surrender to it more and more as the days stretch out before us.
