Have you ever been shopping on Amazon and have taken advantage of the filtering they offer? Maybe you’re looking for a certain pair of shoes, so you filter by size, and price, all to get exactly the right pair of shoes for you.
When it comes to hearing from God, we’ve got to learn how to use filtering too. Now you can’t filter God by size or price, but when it comes to hearing God, you’ve got to learn to filter out distractions.
The things of the world will try to distract you. The drama at school. Your social media accounts. Watching too much news, or even having your friends around all the time. Things like these can keep you distracted so that you don’t have the time or the quiet to hear from God.
And after the earthquake there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire there was the sound of a gentle whisper. – 1 Kings 19:12(NLT)
When God speaks to us, He doesn’t yell. Instead, he comes in a whisper and in the quiet. That means you have to be quiet to hear Him. If your mind is busy, your life is busy, and you’re constantly doing other things, you won’t be able to hear from Him.
So today, start your journey learning to hear from God. Pray about whether there are things in your life that are distracting you from hearing from Him. To hear from God, you’ve got to get quiet. So begin to filter out the things that might be distracting you from hearing from Him.
