Rain out the window...

Have you ever just stopped? just stopped to listen... not really to anything either. Rather just pressed pause on your "busy" life, closed your eyes, and just let the silence cover you like a big thick blanket.

I am sitting here at my desk, my window is open... and I sit in silence... nothing but the outside as my soundtrack. I here a drip drip of light rain for a couple minutes, then suddenly a down pour. Its interesting that in these moments, the moments where I cannot sleep, the moments where I am left alone with just me and my thoughts, these are the moments where He tends to speak the loudest. In the moments that I am not really looking or asking for Him to.

Isn't that how it is though? He never really shows up when we go in search of Him, rather we show up when He goes in search of us. We tend to be like Elijah on the mountain top, searching for God in everything and anything (1 Kings 19:9-18)... but instead God comes when we least expect it, when we are like Samuel, when we lie there, not really knowing (1 Samuel 3:1-21).

It is these times, when God comes in search of us really, that He reveals so much. I was just reading 1 Corinthians 2, and in it is says that those who follow the Lord are given the Spirit of the Lord, and through that He reveals all things. When God shows us, He reveals some of the deepest, most forgotten things. Sometimes it can be the simplest thing too. I find that it is in these times that I find myself not on a mountain top in my life... but rather in a long valley, a place of lost guidance. Interesting enough 90% of the time I don't even realize that is where I am. But when I stop... when I press pause and listen, not for anything, not too anything... just listen... things begin to click.

so stop...