Take Time Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Take Time------------------------- Date: 2/21/2002 Keywords: "listen" "whisper" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: 1 Kings 19:12* After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. Questions 1. Why does the writer of 1 Kings contrast the earthquake and fire with God's gentle whisper?   2. How much time do you devote to listening to God?   Practical help Want to escape contact with God? Then take C.S. Lewis' advice, worth quoting in full: Avoid silence, avoid solitude, avoid any train of thought that leads off the beaten track. Concentrate on money, sex, status, health and (above all) on your own grievances. Keep the radio on. Live in a crowd. Use plenty of sedation. If you must read books, select them very carefully. But you'd be safer to stick to the papers. You'll find the advertisements helpful, especially those with a sexy or a snobbish appeal. If you've fallen into a porn habit, the quickest way out might be the way down — on your knees. Don't let guilt keep you from listening to the whispers of the father. And turn off that computer; note how much of Lewis' list sounds like a prescient description of the Internet. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2002 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version, © Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.