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save us from the waters that surround us. As I write this book, I know of someone who feels flooded and doesn’t even have time to read the Word of God or have a moment of devotion with God because they have to beat a 2 hour traffic to the office every morning, spend the day in an office they give themselves to but one that unashamedly is so unresponsive and unthankful, then beat the evening traffic to go home to a sweet child whose welcoming question is “why don’t you leave this job and spend more time with me?” Why be king of the concrete Before turning out the light, there is a soft whisper from a loving spouse that says, you carry jungle while the hearts of your too much on your shoulders… and my friend dozes of asking how… till the next morning for spouse and children lie in ruins another flood… The good Word says to guard our hearts, for from it (the heart), flows the issues of life. In another section of the same word is a comment that in our treasures are where our hearts are. So if you are flooded to the soul, aren’t all your treasures flooded and swept away? You treasure the Lord, but you allow the waters of the world to overshadow that presence - the presence that bears all the treasures. The weeds were wrapped about my head. As you sink, the weeds begin to wrap around your mind so you stop thinking and seeing clearly. Your hands are forced to stop working on the important and you start trying to disentangle yourself from the weeds. Your feet stop moving in the right direction and you stand to fight the weeds. This is what happens when you remove the focus from your calling. Everything else entangles you and you can neither move forward nor backward. Take a moment of refreshing rest and analyze if you are entangles in the world’s demands on you. Choose to step away from it all and into the light of God’s Word which offers peace, rest and joy. The demands will never cease and the further you move away from God, the more entangled you become and the further your call gets separated from you. They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy Have you ever watched a child touch something hot despite loud warnings and they get burnt? A refusal to follow through on one’s call is like that. Someone literally says that he has chosen to pursue emptiness and they do not want to hold onto the good/ favour - Whale Belly Experience - 19