How hard can it really be to spend five minutes in silence listening to God? Quite hard actually.
It is a matter of priorities, and how we spend our time reflects what is important to us, and what takes precedence in our affections or our thoughts.
Some people like to stay busy or distracted all the time, because we don't want to be left with our own thoughts. There are painful pathways that we would rather not walk down so spending five minutes in silence in any way can be threatening. Add to this that we are intending to actively listen to God during those five minutes, and the sense of threat may even increase.
Am I acceptable to God to be consciously in His presence rather than hiding in the metaphorical garden of my life?
Do you know that spending five minutes with God in silence each day is a wonderful tonic against sin in any of its myriad forms? But that subject is for another day.
I encourage you to press through your human defense systems, and spend five minutes listening to God today.
Don't let anything come between you and God today as you seek to find those elusive five minutes.
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