As I am sitting here this morning, I can hear the cars passing on the highway, and the distant voice of my husband downstairs talking to a friend on the phone. The heat vent also makes a little popping sound when the air starts flowing through. Yesterday morning, I awoke to the sound of the neighbors diesel truck, and then the garbage truck. Later as I was having my devotions, someone had gotten an early start on trimming their hedges or mowing their lawn.
How hard is it to actually just sit and listen to someone else who is talking to you? I've been embarrassed at times because my thoughts have wandered ... and I'm trying to remember if I locked the door before I left home... or something they said triggered a thought that lead me somewhere else.
How many times in my devotions have I tried to be quiet before the Lord and just listen... and before I know it, my heart is palpatating because I thought of something that brought concern or anxiety. God wants us to lean into Him, rest our head on His chest and hear His heartbeat. He has already read our journal and was up a long time before daylight.. Actually, He was up all night.... watching over us and the things of our heart. It is possibly the only time that we are completely quiet before Him. The moment our eyelids flutter in the morning... our thoughts are racing toward the day...
Can we ask God to calm our anxious thoughts... to settle our hearts long enough to listen to Him... to seek His face even though the world is pounding at the door....
"God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble,
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging."
Be still and know that I am God...
Psalm 46: 1-3, 10
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