Noisy

SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 30:21 NIRV You will hear your Teacher’s voice behind you. You will hear it whether you turn to the right or the left. It will say, “Here is the path I want you to take. So walk on it.”

THOUGHT: Hearing God’s voice has been a life-long pursuit…if you don’t count the years I gave up, anyway. It’s impossible to follow that voice when you give so much room in your head to all the other voices that want your attention. Assigning equal time to every voice, then exhaustedly analyzing which had the most compelling argument left me burned out. In Christ, I could rest from trying to please everyone or be perfect and start learning the rhythms established by the Most Important One.

I had to be very broken to learn that. I hope and pray your route was more straight-forward but still delivered you to the same place: a realization that those other voices aren’t as important because they aren’t coming from one who knows and loves you, a Teacher preparing you to pass the biggest tests of all.

I finally began to grasp the promise of Isaiah 30:21. Become still enough in my heart and mind to hear a voice saying, “this is the way, walk in it.” I don’t get it right all the time, but part of the beauty of following this Teacher is that he knows my heart, remembers my frailties, picks me up when I fail and gives my feet a solid place to stand. (Psalm 40:2)

PRAYER: Lord, it’s noisy down here – everyone I let near my head wants a piece of me. Help me lay down trying to please everyone and be right about everything to just simply be still and hear what you say about my path.