Sarah D. Shearer

Lately, I have been thinking about voices. Who are the voices we allow  to speak into our lives? When we get on Facebook, we are allowing hundreds if not thousands of voices to have an active role in our conscience and our emotional processing.

Many of us fall asleep mindlessly scrolling through social media, crowding our mind with voices of dread and fear and negativity.

And we wonder why we struggle with anxiety and depression.

A few weeks ago everyone was afraid for their safety in Thomasville. Now everyone is scared for the hurricane. We are so quick to assume God must  be judging us, but we haven’t listened to HIS voice at all.

If the voices in your head are telling you the world is falling apart and nothing is safe, and God hates us and so does Trump (😉)listen to this voice instead:

“The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded. He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy, with great bolts of lightning he routed them. The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at your rebuke, LORD, at the blast of breath from your nostrils. He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me. They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the LORD was my support. He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.”

‭Psalm 18

Wait. I thought God was angry. ?? Y’all. Don’t you know if God was angry he could do a  whole lot more than send a hurricane ?? Don’t you know he could wipe us out in a millisecond ? Don’t you think God is bigger than a storm? Could it be as these days are upon us he is waiting and pressing and pursuing and hoping against all hope we will turn to him in distress rather than cling to our own pathetic attempts at control?

There is nothing new under the sun. Bad things have been happening since day one. People have been awaiting the end since the beginning. Being scared and hiding out won’t change that.

Here’s our invitation.

Drown out, silence , do away with voices that don’t know what’s going to happen.

Tune into the only voice who holds the future, holds you.

The Bible is full of incredible stories  about a God who used crazy acts of nature to draw people to him.

Do you believe God is good or are you more worried about your plans ?

It’s all going to be ok. I’ve had to get to this point and you can too.

Repeat to yourself: God is good. God is good to me. God is drawing us to him. My plans are ok to change.  I am not in control. The weather channel is not in control. The news is not in control.  I have the awesome privilege of being a child of God, and so I can speak to the storm and tell it to be still. I am a child of God.