The Gospel of Matthew | The Desolate Place (Part I) | Sermon #262
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- Mar 2
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Updated: Apr 20
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"There is no doubt a lesson here for us. There comes a time when the noise of the crowd, the busyness that we involve ourselves in, needs to be left behind for a little while. We need to find for ourselves the 'desolate' place. I do not mean deprivation of necessary things. I mean time away from the prattle of useless verbiage.
There are times when we need to turn off all the external noise and simply meditate. Specifically meditate on God's Word. I spoke the other day about the fact that when people come to times of meditation, they think it is the time that you empty your mind of all thoughts that might make you think of your ordinary life. Cults, and even paid psychological babblers, will tell you to resist thoughts related to what would normally take up your thinking, and disengage, so that your thoughts will run free, and you can hear the universe speaking to you.
That is not what Scripture tells us as believers to do. When we 'get away' from the crowd for some rest, we are not to disengage from the sustenance that feeds our souls. The sustenance that feeds our soul is the Word of God. It is the truth that God is in control. It is the truth that God is in every detail of life. We can read about this truth, see it in His Word, meditate on it, and from this we will blossom and grow in our Christian life. We will come away from our time of rest filled with the goodness of God and the fruit of the Spirit."
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