Selah: Pause and Reflect on 2021

When reading the Psalms, you will come upon the word "Selah." While there are different interpretations of the word, one interpretation of "Selah" is "pause and reflect." Most scholars think Selah speaks of a pause to meditate on the words just spoken. The new year seems like the perfect time to pause and reflect. To reflect on God, rest, and worship. To reflect on what has happened over the last year. To reflect on what God is doing and what God is going to do. Selah appears 74 times in the Old Testament -- 71 times in the Psalms and 3 times in Habakkuk. "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit queitly in a room alone." --Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)