Thursday, January 9, 2020

JOHN Good Morning! I’m John Branning the Lead Pastor of Central United Methodist Church. "Before refrigerators, people used icehouses to preserve their food. Icehouses had thick walls, no windows, and a tightly fitted door. In winter, when streams and lakes were frozen, large blocks of ice were cut from the frozen waters, hauled to the icehouses, and covered with sawdust. Often these ice blocks would last well into the summer. One man lost a valuable watch while working in an icehouse. He searched diligently for it, carefully raking through the sawdust, but didn't find it. His fellow workers also looked, but their efforts, too, proved futile. A small boy who heard about the fruitless search slipped into the icehouse during the noon hour and soon emerged with the watch. Amazed, the men asked him how he found it." I closed the door," the boy replied, "lay down in the sawdust, and kept very still. Soon I heard the watch ticking." This is a good lesson for all of us as we listen for God. You see the question isn't whether God will speak, but whether we will take the time to be quiet and still enough to hear His voice. Let's be sure to take that time to hear what He's saying to us!