FACEBOOK...MYSPACE...BLOGS...TEXTING...PHONE CALLS...ETC all create NOISE!! Our lives are surrounded by NOISE! We are intertwined and in tangled with distractions and NOISE! We never stop long enough to hear that STILL SMALL VOICE INSIDE! That voice that always speaks but rarely heard because of ALL OF THE NOISE! When we stop long enough to listen we get direction and answers that we've been praying and pleading for, for years!
When is the last time you drove anywhere without the radio, ipod, CD, etc playing in the background? When is the last time you sat in silence for more than a few minutes. We are so used to all the noise that it's weird to operate without it.
Sometimes the BIGGEST BREAKTHROUGHS happen in SILENCE! Sometimes the GREATEST IDEAS happen when silence is present!! Sometimes the MOST SINCERE APOLOGIES happen when silence is allowed to ushers in peace! Sometimes CLARITY CAN FIND IT'S WAY BACK HOME when silence is preferred instead of chaos! When SILENCE is present HEALING is AVAILABLE, LOVE is PARAMOUNT and HOPE is in ABUNDANCE!
Being STILL is a PRICELESS GIFT that too many of us have forgotten about! Being STILL makes the waves of life CALM and the WINDS that want to tear us away, CEASE! When we are STILL long enough and GOD is welcome to intervene our SOUL can be STILL and BLESSINGS can BEGIN!
Psalm 46:10-New International Version (NIV)
10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”
Singer and Song Writer Kari Jobe might explain it best! Take a listen and then turn everything off and BE STILL!
