God invites us to His banquet, prepares a feast, bids us to join in the merrymaking, but all too often the noise and clutter in our lives causes us to miss out.
The car pool trips to the basketball games, the shopping at the mall, even the rush and fuss over the latest church program or Bible study too often ring loud in importance. Then the still small voice of our Lord ends up ignored and our own hearts pay the price.
Other noises sometimes rob us too. Like the time when you had a vision that stirred you passion, but then someone threw cold water on it and their words still ping-pong around in your while the vision has perished.
Or the time you accomplished something special and no one noticed. The very silence from your friends drowned out the words from the Lord.
I remember returning as a missionary from South America excited about the work of the Lord in a remote mountain area only to find that friends back home were more interested in what was going on in their own city. The "clutter" of my hurt kept me from hearing the Lord's invitation to rejoice with Him.
In chapter 4 of Do You Think I'm Beautiful, Angela Thomas reminds us to sweep aside the noise and clutter and listen to the One who never tires of reminding us of His love.
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