Be Still
The problem with living your life like this is you end up .
You rip around this racetrack called life till it gets loud, till it gets and things start to blur around you.
Nowhere in any of this am I .
When you put your head down on your pillow at night, you feel anything but .
You would almost do anything in the world to just push it away, to yourself.
This race that we are running called life is just as much a spiritual .
You have an enemy named the .
All he needs to do is distract you. Distract you with .
"Be still, and know that I am God."
— Psalm 46:10It's simple, but it's .
When our mind is racing, this is where we have to .
Elijah's running, he's tired, and he's .
In our lives we've seen God be . He's shown up for us.
And he calls out to God and says, "Lord, I've had ."
The journey ahead for Elijah is a little too much for him, but it's not too much for .
"Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. And when Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave."
— 1 Kings 19:11-13Elijah gets still and God up.
The wind of : our phone, gossip, social media.
The fire of : chasing the next achievement.
God doesn't speak in those, because he's so much than any of those.
I don't think the key is anything. It's just stopping long enough to hear the whisper.
You're exactly where you need to be right now, not off to do something.
I was missing the point the entire time by going way too .
We won't find him in the fire of urgency, because he's so much closer than any of those. He's in the whisper of .