In the Midst

Some tasks require a quiet place where we can concentrate.  When I lived at home, there didn’t seem to BE a quiet place: I was playing the piano, Debbie was practicing her cheers, Sherri was blowing the clarinet, and Mom was in the kitchen making her own music with pots and pans.  Mr. Bill was always amazed how Dad could calmly read the paper in the midst of all that noise!

"In the midst" is where God does a lot of His talking! Deuteronomy 4:33 confirms that, "Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire ... " In Verse 34, God continues to remind His People of the times they were "in the midst" of trials and calamities, even oppression, yet He never failed them. Most of us are "in the midst" of something all the time, and it’s where we can lose sight of God's power. It's so easy to see a broken washing machine, a dry well, crushing deadlines, and a demanding family as a hindrance to life. Nothing is bigger than our God, and in the middle of it all is where He wants to show us how big He really is. God's greatest gift showed up in Bethlehem in the midst of the mayhem of a national census and all the lacks of this and that. "Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know that the LORD He is God; there is none else beside Him." (V.35).  In the midst of this Christmas Season: slow down, be still, hear His Voice. He has so much to say!