In todays society, its rare that we are anywhere without background noise. They play music at the mall, resturants, stores, etc. There is usually the radio on in the car, we play pandora at home, we leave on the TV, etc.
Something that is so innocent can be much deeper in fact. My 3 year old daughter has an inherit "need" to have on some form of noise in the background. Sometimes its a TV show she has seen a thousand times and isn't watching (but you may not turn it off, she's "watching" it). Sometimes its just a fan or a heater or the dryer... Just noise.
We carry this straight into adulthood as well. The news is on in the background at work, we play music, we do all sorts of stuff just to create some form of white noise to fill that void --
what is that void that we are filling?
When we get quiet and start listening, its usual to suddenly start hearing God. And, its not that he wasn't talking to us the whole time its just that we started listening. Listen to your own spirit. What are you going through that you haven't slowed down to realise and process? Listen to the Holy Spirit. Many couples go through terrible break ups and heartache after heartache because they weren't "in love anymore" but really they stopped listening to eachother.
Let it not be us that falls out of love with God because we have stopped listening!
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