Being Still

Before refrigerators, people used icehouses to preserve their food. Icehouses had thick walls, no windows, and a tightly fitted door. In winter, when streams and lakes were frozen, large blocks of ice were cut, hauled to the icehouses, and covered with sawdust. Often the ice would last well into the summer. One man lost a valuable watch while working in an icehouse. He searched diligently for it, carefully raking through the sawdust, but didn’t find it. His fellow workers also looked, but their efforts, too, proved futile. A small boy who heard about the fruitless search slipped into the icehouse during the noon hour and soon emerged with the watch. Amazed, the men asked him how he found it. "I closed the door," the boy replied, "lay down in the sawdust, and kept very still. Soon I heard the watch ticking."

Often the question is not whether God is speaking, but whether we are being still enough, and quiet enough, to hear.



Psalm 46:10 NIV
"Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."

Weapons of Mass Distraction

I have been speaking at alot of different fall retreats lately and God has really been doing a special thing within the context of those gatherings. Why does it take a retreat, camp, convention for us to see things we dont usually see? Answer: Because we take time to see them. The hard reality is that each of us have SO MUCH on our plates that we do not see them. Then when we do, it's WAY out of control and seems insurmountable. We say to ourselves, "there is no way I can get back to where I was!" and then ultimately give up on trying. Point goes to Satan.

He doesn't always want to destroy you. If he can just limit you to believing in only yourself (instead of God) he wins. He has what I heard a pastor call A Weapon of Mass Distraction. If He can just keep your focus on something else, you never have 'time' to look in a mirror.

Today, I challenge you to look at yourself deliberately and explicitly to see what He is calling you to bring to the table.

Whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. —Romans 8:29

Infinite!

“An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.”

— A. W. Tozer

More than Enough

“When you have nothing left but God, then for the first time you become aware that God is enough.”

— Maude Royden