What’s yelling at you that you are answering while leaving what’s quietly needing your attention unattended to?

Even as I sat down to write this blog, I got distracted by three other things that I needed to have already taken care of or for sure must be handled by tomorrow. Never a shortage of to-do’s. But also never a shortage of a knowing inside of purpose pulling us toward our best yes. Never a shortage of the realization of relationships needing nourishment, dreams demanding to be drafted, and strategies still to be scribed for the success you see in your heart that’s possible.

As it all rumbles beneath the surface; purpose, commitments, what means most to us, and the have-to’s that are more of a chore we have to choose, we try and juggle, organize it all to happen how it has to. Obstacles arise. Challenges and changes come. Still we chase after what we want, what we sense God wants from us and for us.

The noise and the yelling drowns out the still, small voice our hearts long to adhere to. Is the loudest voice you hear the voice of God or the voice of the world? Culture calls us and when it’s the call we harken unto, we settle. We trade the supernatural for the spectacular it promises. But it’s like fool’s gold. When Christ is in your heart and the voice you listen to and obey is the one coming from your heart instead of your head, the noise quiets and peace leads you to what you really want, what He really wants for you.

We all have so much pulling on us and yelling at us. Also, we have so much more backing us up. Greater is He that is in us. We are more than conquerors. We are called to even greater works than Jesus! That seems crazy but it’s what The Bible promises.

So let the yelling, yell. But, let our ears be tuned to hear the still, small voice in our hearts over the noise in our heads. Let’s believe what The Bible tells us, that we will hear the voice of our Shepherd and the voice of a stranger, we will not harken unto.

Happy Monday!