noise

“When one continually digests everything dished out by religious leaders, government, and big business, they may find they’re unable to make a decision without getting someone else’s input first.” Jerome

In the flawed baseball movie, For the Love of the Game, pitcher Billy Church (played by Kevin Costner) would step on the mound and be surrounded by so many sounds, sights, and pressures. He would look at his catcher, trying to focus and then say to himself, “Clear the Mechanism.” And in amazing movie magic, all sound would go away and his focus would return. Now in the silence he was ready to pitch.

Sometimes I think that we live with too much noise. And that noise doesn’t serve any good purpose. As christians, we try to make sure our noise is good noise, but it’s still noise. In ministry, we try to say it’s godly noise, but it’s still noise.

Why is it so hard for us to ‘clear the mechanism’ and be quite before the Lord?  Why do we make life all about the noise? The noise only leads to stress, busyness, anxiety and more noise. We make it about the noise, where all God is calling us to do is ‘be still and know that I am God.’

Let us be a people who pursue silence.

After reading this quote from Jerome, really got me thinking. Why aren’t we driven by seeking the Lord and reading the Bible anymore? We get wrapped up in the noise. It’s deafening. It makes it seem like we’re consumed by the thoughts of other