I hope you’ve enjoyed Tozer these past ten days without me. We are going through a busy season so I don’t always have the time to write one of these reflections. But I hope that after five and a half months you have some semblance of a routine for a daily pursuit of God. It is so easy, especially in our culture, to get caught in a world-centered routine. There are so many things constantly crying out for our time. If it isn’t time it’s taking, it’s capturing our attention. How many background processes are running in our brains at any given time? Right now I have music playing, someone outside is packing up their car to go to work, I’m fluffing up a load of laundry in the dryer, I just finished my coffee, the day’s work responsibilities are starting to flash before my eyes, those lingering chores and items on the honey-do list that I keep putting off are whispering to me, too. If we aren’t careful, our minds can be completely occupied all the time. We easily fall into a routine of ‘busy.’ I know I used to pride myself in mine. Busyness is a status symbol for us. And most of the things we busy ourselves with have no actual impact on our lives. They have no real bearing on reality. They are only important because we think they are, everyone else is doing it, and we make up insane reasons to worry about it all. With all this noise going on it’s impossible to see or hear clearly. We are drunk with tasks, to-do lists, busy. We need some sobriety. This daily practice of pausing to take a step back and turn off the world is so important. The things we typically worry about are not.
In order to come to ourselves and return to the Father like the prodigal son, we need to stop and look at ourselves. Ask yourself, ‘What am I doing? Why am I doing that?’ The prodigal son came to his senses when the party stopped and he found himself lower than the pigs. Here today we have seemingly unlimited access to a deluge of slop to keep us constantly satiated without being satisfied. That is not Life. Wake up and realize you are waddling in mud and eating garbage like swine! We are being fattened up to sit in useless idleness in the hopes that we never look up from our trough. This is the world we live in. Realize where you are. Remember who you come from and you’ll know where to go.
Silent solitude is a retreat for us, a place of daily strengthening. If we yield to Him and come home the plethora of distractions will all pass away and “all the overwhelming, incomprehensible plenitude of goodness and kindness and the great illimitable reaches of God’s nature” will be opened to you. He is on your side. (Tozer pg. 131)
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