Stillness is one of the most misunderstood spiritual disciplines there is.
People think it means inactivity.
People think it means passivity.
People think it means you’re doing “nothing.”
But stillness is never nothing.
Stillness is strategy.
When you’ve lived most of your life solving problems before they fully form, rescuing people who never asked for rescue, and outrunning emotions you never had the space to feel, the idea of sitting still feels almost irresponsible.
But here’s what stillness really is:
It’s the moment your soul stops performing long enough to hear your spirit speak.
Soul esteem begins here.
Because when the spirit leads, stillness becomes a weapon.
When you’re still, you see the things you used to rush past.
You catch the patterns you once ignored.
You notice the conversations you don’t need to have.
You recognize the invitations that are really traps.
You discern the difference between a good idea and a God idea.
Stillness sharpens you.
It was during a still moment years ago, long before the word “Soul Esteem” ever passed through my mind, that I realized how much of my life had been lived in reaction mode.
Reacting to needs.
Reacting to pressure.
Reacting to lack.
Reacting to expectations that were never mine to begin with.
Stillness interrupted that cycle.
And maybe that’s why it scares people — because once you become still, you can’t go back to pretending.
You can’t unsee the truth.
You can’t unknow what God shows you.
You can’t unhear what the Spirit whispers.
Stillness is where clarity grows.
And clarity is where courage is born.
God does His best work in still places.
Moses heard the instructions for a nation in stillness.
David wrote his most intimate psalms in stillness.
Jesus Himself retreated into stillness before stepping into miracles.
Stillness is not the absence of movement.
It is the presence of alignment.
You align your spirit.
You align your emotions.
You align your thoughts with the truth that God is not in a hurry and He does not need you frantic to bless you.
And here’s the part nobody ever tells you:
When you learn the genius of stillness, you stop confusing noise with progress.
You stop calling chaos “purpose.”
You stop mistaking exhaustion for dedication.
You stop believing that anxiety is a prerequisite for success.
You stop letting urgency manipulate your direction.
Stillness anchors you.
So if you’ve been feeling pulled in every direction…
If you’ve been questioning your next step…
If your soul has been whispering that something feels “off”…
Be still.
Just for a moment.
You don’t have to force an outcome.
You don’t have to outthink the season you’re in.
You don’t have to “hustle” your way into the inheritance God already assigned to your name.
Stillness is not a delay.
Stillness is preparation.
It’s where you remember who you are,
what you carry,
And who leads you.
And when you rise from that stillness, don’t be surprised if you walk differently.
Because stillness doesn’t just calm you,
it builds you.
~Jackie
For the woman who’s tired of rushing and ready to hear God again.
