Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Foreign.
[00:00:06] Hey, everybody. Pastor Chuck Allen here with another weekday podcast, and I want to thank you so much for joining me, because here at the weekday podcast, one of the things we love to do is fuel your weekday with truth and encouragement. I've had times in my life, and I bet you have, and maybe you're even there right now, where burnout hits and it hits hard.
[00:00:27] Elijah is having a cave moment, a real burnout moment.
[00:00:31] And it's in that moment and in that cave, God meets him there and, by the way, meets us there.
[00:00:39] And God always starts with something simplistic because Elijah's under a broom tree. And the question we should ask ourselves today is, what's our broom tree today?
[00:00:51] In the new Living translation of First Kings 19, an angel wakes Elijah up and says, get up and eat.
[00:00:58] Excuse me? Get up and eat. The journey ahead is too much for you.
[00:01:03] No lecture, just fuel. He hikes 40 days to Horeb expecting blockbuster. God moves like wild, crazy stuff. God can only do stuff.
[00:01:17] And in the middle of that, there's just a whisper and this rhythm, this rhythm that the angel that God sent gives it to you and gives it to me, just like he gave it to Elijah.
[00:01:29] Eat, rest, journey. Listen, let's go through those four again. These are the things that we should be good at. Eat, rest, journey. Listen. Now, if you're like me, I'm pretty good at the eating, not so good at resting, fairly good at the journey, terrible at listening. Our world drowns signal into noise.
[00:01:52] But God's whisper demands that we lean in so that our proximity to him is close enough to hear his whisper.
[00:02:01] This is what Elijah did.
[00:02:03] Science echoes ancient truth.
[00:02:07] Quiet friend rewires us for peace.
[00:02:11] You are built for this body nourished, soul attuned.
[00:02:17] So the challenge today is the same challenge that I've got.
[00:02:22] How do I find a slot in my crazy schedule for silence? Phone down.
[00:02:30] No podcast, no book, no earphones, no radio.
[00:02:35] Just a heart that's open.
[00:02:37] Ears that are open.
[00:02:39] And a mind and a heart ready to receive God.
[00:02:43] And in that moment, you find that you can feel God's care.
[00:02:48] That's the rhythm of God pulsing life through your veins.
[00:02:53] You are, in that moment, restored. You are, in that moment, ready. You are in that moment ready to step into a fresh journey with joy.
[00:03:04] God, would you sink us to your nourishing whisper and cause our proximity be so close that we couldn't miss when you whisper our name, our direction, and our peace? God bless you, friend. Thanks so much for joining me on today's weekday podcast.
