Hearing God requires us to stop talking. Quieting our hearts before God is one of those suggestions that Richard Foster offers in Spiritual Disciplines. When we keep "talking" and fail to "listen", a natural barrier is created between us and God. It could be defined as "occlusion". The word is used in various scenarios...
In medicine, occlusion is what happens when blood vessels are blocked. Obviously, blocked vessels can create some significant problems.
In dentistry, occlusion means that the patient's mouth is closed. It's tough to work on teeth when there is no access point.
In the computer graphics business occlusion happens when an object closer to the viewport masks an object further away.
In meteorology, when a cold front overtakes a warm front it's described as an occlusion.
In psychology, occlusion happens when you have a word that's on the “tip of your tongue”. For me, those words are usually recalled between 2 and 3am.
Jesus regularly practiced solitude as a way of opening the channels of communication between he and God. Jesus had this habit; it was His rhythm. He lived among the people, helping them, and then He periodically got alone with God and prayed. He slowed down.
Try it today.
2010 now just two days away. I'm not a real "resolution" guy but I'm pretty
passionate about a few things I want to see happen in the next 365 days.
1. WRI...
1 comments:
Darrin...I liked this post..a lot. Thanks for sharing. New to the whole blogging thing and have really enjoyed reading yours. I have naturally assumed...which Mom (Margee) has always told me not to do :)...that you receive your fair share of "hate mail", for lack of a better term...seeing as you speak from a place that many are afraid to go. I am going to call this place "Land of knowing that you aren't anything without the Lord". With a peaceful little town, smack dab in the middle of aforementioned land, called "I have tried "to be" only to realize that He is." Anyway, back to the mail thing...I decided that a positive comment was in order, seeing as your blog has encouraged me on several different occasions. So, with that said, I just wanted to say thanks. Your "realness" is refreshing.
Sincerely,
Janell (resident of "I never appreciated God's Grace until I fell on my face.") Didn't mean for that to rhyme, but sometimes these things happen...hee...hee.
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