Come and Listen

Excited to start blogging again! Hope you are all having an awesome summer and are wearing enough SPF to keep you looking chicly tan. We’ve got a lot of awesome things coming up as the summer moves forward so make sure you keep updated by coming to CSM on Wednesday nights and checking out the blog and CSM website.

This Wednesday, we are talking about things that stink… good and bad… so you don’t want to miss it. Invite a friend so they can stink with you.

I don’t know about you guys, but there are a lot of times through the course of my walk with Christ where it feels like God is just not there, or He feels at least a thousand miles away. You know God is real, you love Him, you go to church, you serve, but you just can’t feel is presence. I think these times can be the most frustrating times for a Christian, trying to move forward when you just feel stuck.

But what I’ve learned this week is that God never moves, He may hide His face from us for a bit, but He never leaves. That truth puts the ball in our court. We have to come to Him, whether it’s through prayer, bible reading, singing, just being in His presence. Then we have to listen. And this is so hard. To just shut up, turn our televisions off, switch our iPods off, stop texting in the middle of our quiet time and just let God speak to us.

I would challenge you, if you do feel far away from God right now or if you’ve never heard the voice of God speaking directly to you, come to Him and listen. You’ll be surprised at what you hear.