Noise

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Noise
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• silence

Why is
so hard to deal with ?
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• noise

183 million people are regularly exposed to
levels
labeled as excessive by the Environmental
Protection Agency
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• Do you have a cell phone ?

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• A pager ?

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• Voice-Mail ?

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• Do You have a cell phone with voice-mail and
  email?

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• Do you have a TV ?

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• More than one TV ?

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• Do you have a radio on all day ?

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• On at the office, in the car, at home ?

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• noise

Is there such a thing as visual
?
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Do you wish there were more billboards
along the roads you drive ?
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Do we have enough strip malls yet ?
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• distant

Do you feel that God is
?
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• louder

Do you wish Gods voice would be
in your life ?
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• noise

A bedlam of
shocks the senses and perverts
that which if conducted aright might be a
blessing.
Ellen White, 2SM p. 36
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SUVs and minivans come now come with
separate CD and DVD systems for the back seats
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You can buy wired clothing now
coats and jackets equipped with cell phones and
MP3 players
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Try
this
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Make yourself comfortable in your chair
slowly
and begin breathing
as you read
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Then Moses and the priests, who are Levites
silent
Said to all Israel, Be
, Oh Israel, and listen
Deuteronomy 279
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silent
Search your hearts and be
Psalms 44
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But the Lord is in His holy temple
silent
Let all the earth be
before Him.
Habakkuk 220
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• Come to Me

all who are weary and burdened
and I will give you rest.
Jesus in Matthew 11
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• still

If I am not
and if I dont listen,
How is Jesus going to give me rest ?
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Have you spent the same amount of time worrying
and talking
about your difficult, confusing situations as you
have spent

• silence

in
listening to what God might have to say ?
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• listening

Why is talking so much easier than
?
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• withdrew

But Jesus often
to a lonely place and prayed.
Luke 516
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• Those were regular disciplines that Jesus had

Silence
Solitude
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• When was the last time you were in a

solitary
place ?
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• What is it about

silence
that is so difficult ?
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noise
Why is it easier to surround myself with
and keep moving
silent
Than to stop, be
and listen ?
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noise
How much
do I voluntarily subject myself to ?
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• Does my schedule, my time, my life look like that
  of a person

who wants to hear Gods word ?
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• healing

Maybe the
and guidance we desperately need
Is not going to come from one more meeting or
seminar
or sermon or self-help book
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listening
But from simply
for the voice of God
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voice
Do you really believe that Gods
is more interesting
than the voices around you ?
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searching
Is it possible that you have been
for God in the winds,
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• the earthquakes

and fires
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silence
And He is waiting to speak to you in the
?
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silence
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By Richard Carey