Got Quiet?

Have you ever misplaced your watch…or better yet, your phone? Then you proceeded to tear the house apart looking for it?  Finally, in exasperation, you sit down a minute and either hear the watch ticking, or you finally ask someone else in the house to call your phone (or if you’re alone, you wait until you get a text or notification)!  What’s my point here?  It was in the quiet stillness that you heard the missing object.

Is your life busy? Is your corner of the world loud? When is the last time you just sat still - preferably with the Scriptures - and listened for God’s voice? He comes to us in whispers sometimes, and if we’re not careful and quiet once in a while, we will miss it. [Elijah learned this lesson in 1 Kings 19, when God had to get his attention after he went and hid in a cave, afraid of those who were seeking to do him harm.] 

This principle actually connects with my word for the year: FOCUS. When we are still and are focusing on something, that is when we will see it or hear it or “get” it. But many times we are just too busy or seem afraid to have stretches of quiet stillness in our life; it forces us to be alone with our thoughts…and some of us don’t like the things we are thinking about! Even more to my point. We need to fill our minds with the right things, the things that are going to point our focus back to God and shape us into who He wants us to be.

I challenge you all to spend some time in complete silence, a little bit every day.
Read a passage of the Bible and let it sink in….write a prayer list and focus
on those things, pausing after each prayer to listen.

I know there will be some of you who just cannot stand complete silence…but that’s
because you’re not used to it. So, work up to it; perhaps you can have some
uplifting, positive, Christian music playing very low in the background,
but still take the time to be still and focus on hearing
the voice of God.

Our Father in Heaven longs to talk to us and have a relationship with us. We must make the time in our schedule to be with Him ~ feel His presence, understand His Word, and receive a word from Him. Spoiler Alert: it is in those times that we receive our strength to face each day and it is in those times that we realize our value and understand our purpose for being alive.  Don’t miss those precious times!

*I must confess that I have also been too “busy” lately, which is why I haven’t posted a blog in weeks! I have been Reading Through the Bible in a Year, and that seems to take my extra time each day, making me feel like not writing. Sometimes we just need to force ourselves to do something to get back “into” it!  I want to make the best use of this platform, to bring glory to God, so I will try harder too!