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QUIET !!!!!!!!!!!!!


Does your brain ever get overloaded?  Like full of so much you can’t shut it off?  I was thinking about what I should post next and different scriptures filled my mind.  Then I started thinking about worship and my last time in Bible study.  Then what about what my boss and I prayed about in his office last week . . . . back and forth – this or that – no, how about . . . but then’s there’s . . . . .

Suddenly, a yearning for quiet came over me.  I tried to stop thinking.  Tried is the operative word here.   Finally, out of sheer frustration, I yelled,
 

QUIET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Silence.  OHHHHHHHH, I needed that!

In this busy world of noise, have you ever tried to stop, take a breath and quiet your mind?  Try it now, why don’t you?   Close your eyes.  Still your heart.  Revel in hearing “nothing” for a while. 
 

Listen, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.  Deuteronomy 32:1
 

Pay attention, Job, and listen to Me; be silent, and I will speak. 
 Job 33:31
 

I find that sometimes, (most times), my head is full of ME – my thoughts, my wants, my life - M-E.   The person we most listen to is ourself and personally, that ain’t good – at least in my case it ain’t!
 

God is telling me (us) to listen to Him – to pay attention, to be silent.
 

[PAUSE]

Okay – now what?


You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.  Psalm 16:11
 

Its all about You, Lord – keep reminding me – its all about You - fill me with joy in Your presence.


Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.  Matthew 5:6

 
When I’m all about myself, help me to hunger and thirst for You and Your righteousness, oh Lord, fill me with Yourself.  And last, but not least, one of my favs:
 

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.  For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight.

In love He predestined us to be adopted as His sons (daughters too!) through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will— to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the One He loves.  Ephesians 1

 
Oh to just praise Him – to praise Him for the blessings, for being chosen, for creation, for every single solitary thought!   

 My brain might be on overload sometimes, but in the quietness of my God, He tells me I am His – chosen for His pleasure and will.

I just can’t get my head around that – can you?   But my heart?  --  It’s smiling. 
 
 

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