Thought For Today - December 17. 2024
Slow Down! Stop Making Noises! Listen!
By: Robert A. Searles
"Be still and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." Psalm 46: 10.
"For
he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of
his hand. Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart, as in
the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: when
your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work" Psalm 45: 7,8,9.
God's
word tells us that we should slow down. Stop what we are doing, stop
making noises, and listen. God wants to talk to us, but many times we do
not want to listen. The reason that we do not want to listen, is
because we do not want to hear what God is saying to us, and if we do
not stop to think and listen, somehow we justify ourselves in not doing
that which God is telling us to do. God may be trying to tell us to do
or not to do something that we want to believe is, or is not the will of
God for us, and many times we do not like what we hear from God.
The
world is a noisy place to live in. The world is guilty before God, and
so the world will try to make as much noise as possible so it will not
have to listen to the voice of God, because the voice of God would
convict. The world must have the loudest automobiles, the loudest
laughter, the loudest music - anything, just keep busy, running, racing,
jumping, but whatever you do, do not sit quietly and listen,, and
think, because it will drive you crazy, so the world tells us. Why will
it drive you crazy? Because we disagree with what we hear when God
speaks to us through his word to our conscience, and we cannot bear the
reproof of God.
"The
ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. He that
refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof
getteth understanding. The fear of the Lord is the instruction of
wisdom; and before honor is humility." Proverbs 15:31, - ,33.
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