What does that mean to you? For me, living above the noise is living in and with the one who is above the noise, God. It is being still and hearing his voice and acknowledging that he is God. It is, every morning waking up and spending time with him.
For a lot of us, we don't know what it is to have a "quiet time." But, God gives specific directions on how He wants us to be in His word. In the old testament, through Gods provision of Manna for the Israelites during their exile in the desert, he gives the perfect metaphor for our need to have our daily bread. In exodus 16:16-18, it says: "…each household should gather as much as it needs…everyone had just enough…each family had just what it needed." Our appetites govern the amount of manna we collect. We can have as much of Christ as we desire. If we are unaware of your need for Him, only a little of Christ will be supplied to us. The measure in which we "feed upon Christ" depends entirely on our felt spiritual need…aka our appetite for HIM.
It continues in Exodus 16:19-20saying "…do not keep any of it until morning. But some of them didn't listen…& by then it was full of maggots & had a terrible smell." The food collected today cannot sustain us for tomorrow. GOD provides daily manna for the day! This is a daily exercise that our souls must thirst for. Trying to live our lives with the manna from the past is like trying to re-live the glory days. It's a great memory but you're no longer living it, just simply reminiscing about it.
Then continuing in Exodus. "…the people gathered the food morning by morning…& as the sun became hot , the flakes they had not picked up melted & disappeared" (Exodus 16:21). Manna had to be collected early before the sun melted it. No time is more precious to "gather manna" than in the quiet & stillness of the day. In the time when we are still and alone with HIM. Before we are bombarded by distractions of thoughts, work, and life. We do not know what things may lie before us throughout the day, but we do know that we will NEED the strength of GOD to get us through the wilderness.
It continues in Exodus 16:19-20saying "…do not keep any of it until morning. But some of them didn't listen…& by then it was full of maggots & had a terrible smell." The food collected today cannot sustain us for tomorrow. GOD provides daily manna for the day! This is a daily exercise that our souls must thirst for. Trying to live our lives with the manna from the past is like trying to re-live the glory days. It's a great memory but you're no longer living it, just simply reminiscing about it.
Then continuing in Exodus. "…the people gathered the food morning by morning…& as the sun became hot , the flakes they had not picked up melted & disappeared" (Exodus 16:21). Manna had to be collected early before the sun melted it. No time is more precious to "gather manna" than in the quiet & stillness of the day. In the time when we are still and alone with HIM. Before we are bombarded by distractions of thoughts, work, and life. We do not know what things may lie before us throughout the day, but we do know that we will NEED the strength of GOD to get us through the wilderness.
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