Thoughts pt. 2

There have been several things on my mind lately.

Or rather, I guess i’ve been teetering between several frames of mind.

Much of it having to do with noise.
Not noise in the physical sense, but rather the noise that eats up our lives.

The things we do to take us away from the reality of who and where we are.

I am really keen to this noise. only because when I am immersed in it for more than half a week I can’t function at all. Id even say that each day that starts with noise is a day thats already half won by the enemy. It takes so much more effort to fight back what you already allowed the enemy to put in your mind then when it comes up later on. Then you can deal with it. but when you’ve already been bathed in the enemy’s deceit from the start, things fester and build on top of one another.

Stillness is what happens when we surround our thoughts and actions with the heart and will of God. Its not necessarily being quiet, like with physical sound, but its a frame of heart that requires an honest, disciplined attitude thats willing to surrender whatever is on our minds- that being most of the time, especially things like worry, anger or bitterness.

We will never have any excuse to circumvent stillness, ever. It is required to hear from the Lord. Not circumstance nor attitude because of circumstance.

-not seeking the stillness of heart is denying Gods voice in your life. Its that big of a deal. Thats what God requiring all of us means. He wants all of our thoughts. Not arbitrarily, but because he knows how frail we are. He knows how easy it is for us to lose hope, to fall into the lies of the devil that tell us nothing matters, or conversely that trivial things matter way more than they do.

The Lord is good in all his deeds. He will take you places you never thought. He will sustain you like you never thought. He is always what you need, and you will find that true if you’re willing to try.

From the sheep who is worried much of the time about trivial things and is calmed down by the Shepherd,

Scottry~