turn off your music
turn off your TV
turn off your thoughts
get off the phone
sign off msn
Just stop.....
and listen to the silence
in the world we live in, there never seems to be a moment where we can rest
we're constantly surround by soo many distractions soo many "noises"
we seem to be entertained every second of our lives
We get home we:
turn on the computer
turn on the TV
turn on the Radio
Call someone up
Read a book
We never just sit in silence I mean that seems stupid doesn't it? or is it?
we can't seem to survive without having our attention fixated on SOMETHING
and when were not entertained we're bored.... and being bored is negative? is it?
Sometimes its not just media
but other things like work
Homework, housework, work work, volunteer work, church work, hobby work
we seem to work work work study study study
we never take time to STOP
among all this "busyness" have you even stopped to think even for a moment what the point of it is? i mean we all seem to work soo hard for something.... only to get even more work and be twice as busy
Doesn't it seem a bit wrong? a bit unnatural? I mean how did people in the past SURVIVE with out our technological advances we have today?
A lot of times we complain about how we can't seem to "feel God" or "hear him speak"
We say that we've tried and tried but nothing seems to happen he's not "there"
Could it be that there's just soo much noise that his voice is lost amidst all distractions?
When was the last time you sat in silence
Not just silence but "silence" with no distractions?
Just sat in the MOMENT NOT thinking about the past or the future but being in the present
where GOD is
where ETERNITY meets TIME
in the bible it says:
1 Kings 19:11-14 (New International Version)
11 The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by."
Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 12 After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. 13 When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.
Then a voice said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?
See God wasn't in the POWERFUL WIND or the EARTHQUAKE or even the fire
God came in a gentle whisper.............
SO take time right NOW to be in SILENCE
WE were not beings created to just work we were also created to rest and be in the company of God.
NOT just 5 minutes
NOT just 10 minutes
NOt just 20 minutes
BUT take enough time to CALM yourself be in the MOMENT and LISTEN to GOD
maybe you don't know his voice because you've never heard it........
and when you've calmed down from all the stress of life
start to think about things that really matter
don't focus on just the short term BUT REALLY THINK REFLECT on this life
why are we here? whats the point of everything I'm doing now?
ASK GOD and talk to him and he will answer
SEEK and you will find
Matthew 7:6-11
7"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. 9"Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him
FOR Christians we have the AMAZING ability to connect with GOD
because Jesus died for our sins we can come to GOd the father personally.
Even if you don't know what you believe or what to think still take time TO THINK to really ask
questions.....sometimes its hard to think when all we do is DO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WinhYMtZjMA
