TAKING US A PAUSE IN OUR LIFE

"... Wait a little for me to declare the word of God"
1 Samuel 9:27

"There are some beetles so fast that their flight speed reaches half a meter per second, based on the length of their body, they have been calculated to be nine times faster than a winning Olympic athlete in the 200 meter competition. While they are fast chasing their prey, it happens that these beetles suddenly stop.In this regard, scientists have discovered that when these insects fly too fast, there are not enough elements in their eyes to clearly distinguish their prey. Do not stop to see again quickly and so continue your hunt. "

How fast do we live life? The society in which we are increasingly more demanding. The people and quickly. By plane it is possible to be at one end of a country in one or a couple of hours, but sometimes it takes less than that to be somewhere. When we started the underground trains they were very fast for many. However, today for some of us it is enough.

For many results, it takes time to stop listening to the voice of God. "There is a lot to do!" Some say. "I do not have time to pray 30 minutes a day," others say. "God has to understand that I do not have time." Expressions like these, in most cases, are evidence of God's little dependence on our lives. Remember, "God can do in an hour what we can do in a thousand years."

Saul was to be made king over Israel; I had a lot of work ahead of me. I was probably excited to start a "send". However, what is the first instruction he receives from the prophet Samuel? "Tell the servant to go ahead ... but wait a bit for me to declare the word of God." It is not just about starting to do; we must dedicate time daily to seek God's direction. The great men of God, in the Old and in the New Testament did. In the history of Christianity, there is not a man that God has used powerfully that was not a man of prayer and loved intimacy with the Lord.

The last months How many hours have you spent searching for God's direction for your life? Or rather, we have started this year so quickly, we are absorbed in our occupations and hobbies. If so, we must stop to see clearly again. Are we on the right path, are we going towards the goal to which we aspire to reach? In fact, to what goal do we aim? Let's learn from the beetle, let's stop to something our goals and goals in this new year. Be careful, do not be for the hurry, we go to a goal that is not the one that God wants or that by the trouble we do not spend much more time in things that God can solve in the blink of an eye.

Once there was a man trying to cut a strong tree with a blunt ax. To which a man after seeing him almost half a day without advancing in his task, he says: "Why do not you take a few minutes to join your ax?" To which the woodcutter replied: "It's just that I do not have time." Be careful not to waste our time working with a worn ax, nothing more than not taking the time for God to sharpen it.