"In fact, countless devotionals and study Bibles are based on the concept of getting our clarity in two minutes or less. This trains us to think there is “time with God” and “our time.” The compartmentalization of His voice to set times we commune with Him is a dangerous place to live. Is it our goal to spend the slightest amount of time possible with the Lord and still be in relationship with Him? I’m not discounting the effectiveness of these publications or their place in our lives at certain times, but their very existence validates a system that tries to battle the noise with the least amount of commitment—just like a specific type of soda in your grocery store indicates a precise kind of beverage-drinker guzzling down that exact flavor of food coloring or aspartame. (What exactly is caramel color, anyway?)
Noise is battled fifteen, ten, and five minutes at a time.
But do you think it’s working?
As the body of Christ, are we winning this struggle?
Has it worked for you?
Are you still a servant—or, more truthfully, slave—to the noise?
I’ll let you decide.
Continually packaging God’s Word in compact and easy-to-use ways will continue to produce compact and easy-to-use followers of Christ—who possibly have compact dreams and easy visions."
- Eric Samuel Timm,
Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise
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