Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day (Tuesday 01/12/10)

Under Stimulated…

Jeremiah 3:20-22 (Amplified Bible)

²⁰Surely, as a wife treacherously and faithlessly departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously and faithlessly with Me, O house of Israel, says the Lord.

²¹A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and pleading of the sons of Israel, because they have perverted their ways, they have [eagerly] forgotten the Lord their God.

²²Return, O faithless sons, [says the Lord, and] I will heal your faithlessness. [And they answer] Behold, we come to You, for You are the Lord our God.

Tonight I went to see a friend in the hospital, as we entered the room the nurse instructed us not to touch her, but to sit off at a distance and just let her know we were there. She explained that her blood pressure had been high and people visiting and touching her was causing her to move around far too much and cough which was elevating her blood pressure. She said her day had been filled with too much stimulation, and she wanted us to decrease the stimulus that was being presented.

As we drove home I thought about all the nurse had said and I began to think about a case study in a psychology class I had taken, where they studied baby monkeys and the effects that stimulus from a mother produced, but the study’s main focus was the study of removing stimulus from a baby, by removing it from it’s mother. Without contact the little monkeys lay life less and lethargic, eventually wasted away and dying. I thought back to my hospital visit and then to the study, it was as though God was saying look at the whole picture. It all of a sudden became clear in that moment. Touch produced stimulus which produced activity, excitement and life where as lack of stimulus which was separation caused deterioration and death. When we neglect our relationship with God and we do not reach out and touch Him regularly we begin a process of deterioration. We remove the very stimulus that provides us with what we need to drive our Spirit man and keep us living. When our relationship with things and others takes the place of our relationship with God we begin to lose sight and lose our ability to see the necessity in touching God through His word, prayer and fellowship. Our spiritual waves go under stimulated and they cause us to lessen God and magnify things that can not provide us eternal life and a means to live in the fullness here in the earth.

Today is a good day to look at how often we reach out and touch God. Do we have enough of God to keep us stimulated, progressing and moving forward in Him, or do we lack the stimulus needed to actively keep us alive in Him? Are we under stimulated not focused on what is above but what the world has to offer, or are we stimulated enough by time spent with the Father to keep us living a life at its fullest? It may be time for a little shock therapy to get our right balance of stimulus.