Time

If you are reading this blog right now, stop… no wait not yet, I want you to take 15 seconds, right where you are sitting and just be silent and still. Ok so ready, set, STOP!

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Welcome back, now think about that time, 15 seconds of just being silent and still. What did you hear? What did you feel? What stuck out, if anything?

Psalm 46:10 says, "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."

In 15 seconds on an average day 5 people will die of thirst. Every 15 seconds there are 45 babies born and nearly twice as many iPhones sold. In 15 seconds I heard the heat vent pushing heat out on this cold February day, the sound of someone watching the news on a TV in another room, my own breath, cars driving by on the street outside, the ticking of the clock behind me on the wall, the fan running in the computer I am using to type this blog, and peace. For those 15 seconds I wondered how many of those cars driving by were heading to the hospital because there is a new baby about to be born, or a life reaching its time to rest. I wondered how much bad news was on that TV news broadcast and if they shared any of the wonders of the day to lift up viewers. Those 15 seconds wells spent are refreshing for the soul, cleansing the heart, and allowing God to do His work in you. God doesn’t need time, man does. If you really want to be closer to God, give Him some of the time back, even if it’s just 15 seconds at a time.