How many electronic devices do you carry around with you? How many TVs and radios do you have? How many hours a day do you spend talking on the phone or texting or e-mailing? How often do you watch TV while you’re doing something else? Our lives are full of noise and distraction and busyness. We are a fast paced culture that never sleeps.
I love watching the old films that guessed about the technological advancements we would have today and how much time they would save us. There were people who were seriously worried that our modern technology would free us up from so much work that we’d wind up with too much extra time on our hands. But it seems like we can put those fears to rest. With every new modern advancement, it’s like we learn to multitask another level.
Have you ever just stopped? Put down the devices and books and magazines, turned off the electronics, and sat down and listened for the voice of God? The Bible describes the leading of the Holy Spirit as a still, small voice. How much have you missed of God’s voice because your life was too full of busyness and noise?
Perhaps it’s time to be like Jesus and choose to make some solitude and silence in your life.
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Pastor – This is what we experience at the Holy Land Experience in Orlando Florida. They had a… Scriptorium or for an easier word a Bible museum, with real Bibles from before Christ… and throughout the ages… We saw old scriptures and learned about the sacrifices of the saints… the clouds of witnesses that brought us the sacred book. Monks with endless hours of copying, John Wycliffe, John Bunyan’s jail cell, the Pilgrims coming to America fleeing persecution, plus others… It climaxes with us leaving the Holy surroundings of these great lives and we enter a room of modern day America… with TV’s, computers, radios, the voices, the music and the sounds of our modern day surroundings getting louder and louder… drowning out the message of God. And then we are left with the admonition to shut them off and hear God’s voice. It was a very moving and vivid experience I will not forget.