I have a lot of noise in my life; TV, the Radio, ipod, phone calls, voicemail, emails, tweets, status updates, two kids, my wife, friends, thoughts, stress, and more. Those are not all bad but they can create so much noise in my life that I don’t hear God – the still small voice. The Holy Spirit may be trying to speak or even guide me and yet I don’t hear him because of all the noise. I don’t see and serve others because of all that’s going on in my life.
Is there enough space in my life to hear God, to spend time with God, to listen to what the Holy Spirit has to say to me? Honestly? NO!
In the book of Amos the nation of Israel has experienced a great deal of prosperity and Amos has been called to be God’s prophet to the people. He comes to warn them that they have forgotten who they are – the people of God. Listen to Amos 5:23…
Away with the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
God was basically saying, through Amos, “if you keep listening to the noise of the world and keep neglecting the poor then your worship, your praise is like noise and I don’t want to hear it.”
I often look so forward to Sunday’s to escape the noise of the week to just praise God with my church family, but if I have been so immersed in the noise of my week God says that my praise, my singing, is just noise in his ears. If I am not a follower of God during the week then God really doesn’t want to hear my, so-called, praise.
“Forget to be the people of God and you become just noise!” – Matt Chandler
I don’t want to be noise in God’s ear!
Thanks for that reminder. I don’t want to be noise to God’s ears either.