Monday's Outlook: Silence

Have you ever desired silence? That’s how it was for me this weekend, through this morning. I found it to be a little to noisy all around me. I joked on a Facebook Status over this weekend about being at the Rainforest Cafe’ and it being too loud. Well, it was the truth; there were all kinds of animals, waterfalls, and even music going. It was a complete indoor jungle. Sometimes we let things/people over crowd us and we go through living our lives as if we are in a jungle. All the while we never seek the silence and contentment with God.

We have to make it a habit for ourselves to desire the silence sometimes. Some of us are waiting and waiting for answers from God, but are unable to hear him because HE is trying to speak over so many things that we have going on in our lives. You may be right on the brink of getting what you need and then there goes the jungle again. The children are acting up, the husband/wife acting up, your friend is on the phone with their problems, you trying to please your boss by working overtime; God is saying be still, be silent for a minute, hear from me, so I can give you what you need to fix those things.

We seem to have a ton of excuses when it comes to making time to build the much needed relationship with the lord. I found my biggest mistake to be setting a time to read the word or pray. It made the relationship appear as an uneasy obligation, almost forced. Your relationship with God should be natural. So I just set my heart on desiring him. The more I desired him, the more the time seemed to appear for just me and him. The days certainly didn’t get longer, and I know we still operate on 24 hours. However, God knew that I wanted to HIM and I was seeking HIM. I had a desire to spend time with him. When ever I start to get off track and the jungle seems to appear. I know, Ok, you have too much going on. It is time to be silent. It is time to go to your silent place. If things seem to be getting a little noisy around you and you feel like you are right in the middle of the jungle, it may be time to seek SILENCE.

Always praying for you,

TAP