The Out Wants In

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"Your daily occupations are not contrary to your Lord's will. Whether it be study, reading, preaching, earning your living, doing business, or the like...but if they draw you away from God, return to His presence with a renewed act of faith." Molinos

A mountain hut. A lonely monk. No distractions. A simple life.

This is what we picture when we think of someone living in the uninterrupted presence of God. But if these are the requirements, most of us are doomed.

However, the reality is that outer circumstances do not dictate inner peace. Our inner circumstances, though, will determine what level of peace is available to our outer life.

Peace originates with God. And when we dwell in His presence, on a daily basis, we carry it into our day. Into our 'study, reading, preaching, earning a living, doing business, or the like'.

Unfortunately the out, like a tyrant, demands in.

Many years ago Charles Hummel wrote a piece called, The Tyranny of the Urgent. He outlines how Jesus could claim, at the end of His life, that He finished the work His Father gave Him. Obviously, there were still plenty of sick, blind, hungry, and imprisoned people left in Rome occupied Judea. So how could Jesus claim to be finished? The simple truth is because He only did what the Father asked Him to do.

If I don't spend time in His Presence I can't hear His voice. If I can't hear His voice, telling me what things to do, and what things to leave for others, I become a victim of the outer tyrant. Instead, I desire to bring the peace of God into the busy, fractured world. So I return, again and again, one hundred times or more each day, to find the peace only He can give.