What would you say is the pivotal point in Jesus' life? Of course, there's the decision to go to Jerusalem and face the cross. He mentioned that at least 3 times...until Peter tried to rewrite his script in his own way when Jesus had to tell the Satan in him to get behind him. No, I think the pivotal choice was something he did so frequently---he went away to a "lonely place" to just be with his Father. That daily choice formed the freedom to put the Satan behind himself who bargained right up to the point when Jesus hung on the cross. The need to break away for solitude, to let ourselves be is precisely the time when the silence speaks and whispers the voice of God. We clear the noise from, inside us. We open the ears of our spirits to what the Spirit says.
Maybe it is true what they say. We cannot go away and lock ourselves in a room without wiring ourselves to some technology...the constant dinging that electronic world is breaking in on us. Try the silent room technique. Give the noise time to drain away. See what fills the void. That in itself speaks volumes....
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