Change the Frequency

 Photo Credit:  Ira008, via Pixabay

My husband and I enjoy taking road trips together.  We like to hold hands and tell stories and explore new neighborhoods.  Sometimes, we drive in silence and just look up at blue sky and clouds.

When the space and silence gets long, my man will tell me to try to find something to listen to on the radio.  I will hit the scan button and roll through the stations — static, jazz, more static, classical, noisy static, salsa, rap, static.  I scan until I hit an oldies station.  Then, we sing along with rockers from our youth.  If we don’t know the words, we make them up, but I am always surprised at how my husband remembers all the lyrics to 70′s songs.

This doesn’t last for long though.  After a few minutes, we get tired of the static and the noise and the empty lyrics.  So, as we draw closer to home, I change the frequency once again and find a station that spills out songs of life.  The worship feeds our hunger for substance and meaning.

Last night, I was thinking about how my mind is like a radio.  Honestly, sometimes my thoughts are empty.  The old melodies I play are a cacophony of defeat.  I need to change the frequency of my thoughts.  I need to stop letting toxic people rent space in my head.

If I want to hold fast, I must learn to rule over the mental radio dial.  Skip past the static and stop listening to the empty lyrics.

I need to learn to sing a new tune.

 

Don’t tolerate people who try to run your life…
They’re a lot of hot air, that’s all they are.
They’re completely out of touch
with the source of life, Christ,
who puts us together in one piece,
whose very breath and blood flow through us.
He is the Head and we are the body.
We can grow up healthy in God
only as he nourishes us.
Colossians 2:19, MSG

Q4U:  How do you hold fast and tune in to Him in the midst of all the noise?

 

I am sharing “In His Grip” and joining like-minded sisters at Three-Word Wednesday, Words of Life Wednesdays, Tell His Story, A Little R and R, Testimony Tuesday, Soli Deo Gloria, Rich-Faith Rising, Sharing His Beauty, Playdates with God, and Hear it on Sunday: Use it on Monday.

 

Let’s hold fast together in 2014.

The post Change the Frequency appeared first on 3-D Lessons for Life.