I have a stack of Choral Club CD's I really need to listen to. I've downloaded 4 or 5 projects that I really want to get into. Several audiobooks that I downloaded are calling my name. Talk radio is full of relevant info about one of the most important Presidential elections in my lifetime. I really want to hear what is getting airtime on our local Christian radio station.
What my soul really craves right now is quiet.
So, I shut it all off. Not for good, but definitely for my good.
We live in the age of wild over-saturation of the senses. There is always something screaming for our attention. Some diversion jockeying for our time. Some pretentious message that is without a doubt able to change your life if you will just drop the other 56.5 things you are trying to do right now. It's like a group of hyperactive flying monkeys flying and yelling from every visible direction.
God doesn't yell.
More often that not He uses a still small voice. Still and small does not somehow diminish the enormity of what He has to say. It simply means that it usually won't come across a Jumbotron, be visibly written across the sky, or be pasted on a billboard. It just means that we had better be acutely aware of when He has something to say.
He always has something to say.
Are we listening?
What my soul really craves right now is quiet.
So, I shut it all off. Not for good, but definitely for my good.
We live in the age of wild over-saturation of the senses. There is always something screaming for our attention. Some diversion jockeying for our time. Some pretentious message that is without a doubt able to change your life if you will just drop the other 56.5 things you are trying to do right now. It's like a group of hyperactive flying monkeys flying and yelling from every visible direction.
God doesn't yell.
More often that not He uses a still small voice. Still and small does not somehow diminish the enormity of what He has to say. It simply means that it usually won't come across a Jumbotron, be visibly written across the sky, or be pasted on a billboard. It just means that we had better be acutely aware of when He has something to say.
He always has something to say.
Are we listening?
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