![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Total silence is sometimes too quiet, and other types of music make it difficult for me to focus. Or when I’m writing and studying, I usually listen to quiet, relaxing music. It’s usually better for me to listen to my personal playlists or nothing at all. The same negative emotions emerge when I’m in the car listening to talk radio or radio DJs. If I watch or listen too often and too long to the news, with its panel of experts who talk (or yell) over other experts, I find myself becoming frustrated, agitated and anxious. "With the measure you use, it will be measured to you - and even more" (Mark 4:22-24). "Consider carefully what you hear," he continued. If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear. "For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. I can try to convince myself that what I hear doesn’t affect how I think and feel, but the reality is, it does.Īs Jesus said, we need to consider carefully what we hear: But this particular fellow seemed to think I (and everyone else in the coffee shop) needed to hear EVERYTHING he had to say.Īlthough this incident ranks extremely low on any list of First World problems, it does remind me of the importance of surrounding myself with things that are positive and uplift me. Actually, I didn’t need or want to hear ANY of it. I just didn’t need, nor did I want to hear, ALL of that "information" emanating from this self-appointed expert. My intention is not to be judgmental or over-sensitive. I finally ended up at a table in the far corner of the room. ![]() A one-sided conversation took over the room from a man who "knew everything about everything." It was impossible to tune out. They were excessively loud, so I moved to another table. Three men entered and sat down at the table next to me. After I got my coffee and settled in next to the window, I opened up my laptop to get a few things done while I waited for my friend. Therefore, when I pass through the waters, He is with me and through the rivers, they cannot overflow me and when I walk through the fire, I am not burned, neither do the flames kindle upon me.It was raining, and Starbucks® was quiet. “Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name thou art mine”.He has said to me to be still and know that He is God.Be not dismayed, for I am your God: I will strengthen you yea, I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness” …Is 41:10 For He will uphold me with the right hand of His righteousness saying unto me “Fear not, for I am with You.For His eyes roam to and fro across the whole earth to show Himself strong in the behalf of them whose hearts are perfect towards Him” …II Chronicles 9:16.I am Blessed, I am overwhelmed, I am overcome. The One who Was, who Is, and Who is to come The Prince of Peace, and yet the Mighty Warrior From Everlasting to Everlasting, He remains God.And yet He knows me, and has sought me out. The Everlasting, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last He knows me and is mindful of me! The I Am that I Am The One who sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers, the One who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in. His praise is continually on my tongueWhen I think of all He means to me, has been to me, and continues to be to me,I am overwhelmed and amazed that He would single me out and love me so!The God that created the Heavens, and stretched them out that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it that gives us breath and to us who walk therein, he has given us spirit. ![]()
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