The Phil Files

There’s a not so old Eagles song, Learn to be Still (written by Henley & Lynch — see lyrics), that “keeps ringing in my head” this morning. Yesterday was one of those days — breakfast meeting at 7:00 and got home after 10:30 evening meeting. The emotionally exhausting day, full of concern for God’s precious and hurting people, has left me depleted this morning.

Rather than concentrating and doing the hard work of study, prayer, and thinking, I’m having to fight to keep myself on track today. I want to run and do a frenzy of little, time consuming jobs that will give me a feeling of accomplishment, but leave the important work of submitting and listening for God’s message, a message I’m suppose to share with His people.

Having ideas and a focus in Scripture isn’t the problem for either message. No, the problem is that I have too many shallow ideas and too many possibilities of messages. Which of these is really from God for my people, this week? Which ones are only titillating distractions that further inoculate God’s people from hearing His clear call to the Cross and to follow Christ?

I guess I need to listen this time, the voice that “keeps ringing in my head” and learn to be still.

What do you do and where do you go to quiet your spirit and learn to be still and hear the voice of our Abba Father?