'Cause I don't know about anyone else, but sometimes I feel like everything is happening at once, and there's no calm; it's just chaos. Between work, school, friends, guys, trials, and our own selves, there's no quiet. Even in the silence of a room, your mind is still shouting, pointing out things you need to do or shouldn't do or have done but shouldn't have... It fills with tomorrow or yesterday or sometimes even right now. No matter what it is (and I'm not saying it's not important, don't get me wrong. Sometimes we have to think about that stuff), it's still there, and it's still screaming for your thoughts and attention.
I don't know if anyone else ever feels this, but I often feel that God's voice and Jesus himself get lost in the mess of other sounds cluttering our minds. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow dig themselves in there, and they fill our heads with noise.
The Bible tells us that the Father's voice is found in the quiet whisper. Check out 1 Kings 19:11...
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."Amazing, terrifying, earth-shattering things happened, and even though we know God was there because He is omnipresent, He didn't speak through the loud, flashy things. Christ spoke in the gentle whisper. And if the powerful wind and shattering rocks and the earthquake and the fire had all been happening at the same time, God's whisper would have been drowned out.
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.
This is one of those 'three fingers pointing back at me' things... Because as I say this, it probably applies more to me than anyone else. Because that is SO us. We let life be loud, and we don't take the time to quiet our minds. With our own earthquakes- whether they be trials, boyfriends, school, work, sin- drown out the quiet voice, the gentle whisper in which God will change our hearts!
This is just as much a reminder to me as it is to you... Quiet your mind and your heart, and listen for that gentle, loving whisper, for it brings the presence of the Lord and He will change your life.
(P.S. To make sense of the title, the word God is mixed into the clutter, basically unnoticeable, just like when we let our minds get cluttered... We drown Him out.)
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