“Shut Up!”

Do you ever have one of those “Duh!” moments? Someone says something that you should absolutely already know, but it seems like a revelation to you. I had one of those today. As I sat in one of the over 10,000 Starbucks locations in North America alone, sipping my passion tea and talking with a friend, I discovered this simple truth. Hey, maybe you’ve heard it before, but maybe like me, you just need to hear it one more time before it sinks into those thick sculls of ours.

Wait for it...wait for it…

“Shut up!” Yes. That is the insightful thing I learned today. Hold on, don’t stop reading just yet. I’ve been frustrated lately. Frustrated with life, with people, with God and mostly with myself. I just felt stuck, and I didn’t know how to get out of this rut that might as well be the grand canyon. I know the things I want to accomplish in life, I know where I want to go, but I’m clueless as to how to get there, and it all seemed so big, so far away, so overwhelming, and pretty impossible. I have prayed, I have fasted, I have prayed, I have fasted, and still no direction was clear. Then I was even more frustrated, because now I was clueless AND hungry!

In a completely unrelated conversation today, my friend said, “sometimes people are so busy asking God for things, that can’t listen to what He’s saying to them.” A light bulb figuratively appeared over my head as I pictured myself as a whiny seven year old pestering my mom about buying me some candy. She got upset at me because she had given in the first time I asked, but because I was sure she would say “no,” I franticly began my “please, please, please, please, please” routine and didn’t hear her say “yes.” In fact I don’t even think I was looking at her while begging for that snickers bar, I was jumping up and down, spinning around and on the verge of throwing a fit. Yeh..I was a little bit of a brat sometimes. I think that’s about how I’ve been acting with God. I haven’t been paying much attention to Him. I’ve been too wrapped up in what I was doing to see what He was doing. I can’t talk and listen at the same time. If you can, you’re more talented than I.

I knew what I was asking Him was big. At least in my eyes it was, but to Him it’s all the same size. I expected it to take a lot of asking. After all the scripture says to “ask and we shall receive.” Ps 2:8 The problem is I think I got so focused on asking, that I forgot about the other scripture that says, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” I’ve spent plenty of time asking, and I’ve been ready to knock (act), but I’ve been ignoring the seeking (listen) part all together. Matt 7:7 Since this afternoon when I decided to shut my mouth and just be sensitive and listen, suddenly I’m hearing all kinds of things, that I think He’s been saying all along. Guess what? I get to have the candy bar!

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