Did You Say Something?

When I first moved out of my parent's home, I had a little apartment out of town, near the river.  It was nice and quiet, but a bit too quiet.  I grew up with three sisters and it seemed like there was always something going on around the house.  I would often turn the television on just so that it sounded like someone was talking.

We live in a world where silence is distracting and clutter is the norm.  We hear so much about multi-tasking that I think that people have lost the art of mono-tasking.  No one seems to be able to have an actual conversation one on one with a live person while neither is engaged in doing something else.

There is a lot to be said for focusing on a single objective.  When a predator is chasing down prey it will pick a single individual and chase it down.  Animals instinctively know that constantly changing the objective, the target, the goal makes achievement much harder.  Why do we find that concept so puzzling?

It can be difficult to pick out one voice in a sea of noise, even if that one voice is the voice of God.  God is still speaking today, we have a world that can make it hard to hear.  Hearing through the clutter requires focus.  The lower the amount of clutter, the easier it is to hear.

If God is speaking to you today, would you even hear it?